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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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 always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.
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Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
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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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