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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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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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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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