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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
Gertrude Stein
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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.
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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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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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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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You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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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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