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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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 thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
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It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
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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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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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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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
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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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Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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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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Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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