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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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This joy you feel is life.
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A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
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Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
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The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
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We are always the same age inside.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude Stein
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
Gertrude Stein
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
Gertrude Stein
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
Gertrude Stein
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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