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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 so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
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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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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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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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If you can do it then why do it?
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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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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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