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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
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