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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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Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
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I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.
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Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
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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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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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