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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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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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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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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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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
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