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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 idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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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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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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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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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
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