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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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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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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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An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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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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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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