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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude Stein
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
Gertrude Stein
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein
History takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude Stein
Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
Gertrude Stein
To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
Gertrude Stein
I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
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... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.
Gertrude Stein
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
Gertrude Stein
I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
Gertrude Stein
Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
Every man is the maker of his own fortune
Gertrude Stein
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
Gertrude Stein
But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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