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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
Gertrude Stein
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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You cannot go into the womb to form the child it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
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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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Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
Gertrude Stein
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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