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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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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
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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.
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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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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
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A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
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To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
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