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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.
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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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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
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I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
Gertrude Stein
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
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