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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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If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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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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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
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You attract what you need like a lover
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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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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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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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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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
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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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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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