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I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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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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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
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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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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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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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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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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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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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