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Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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This joy you feel is life.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Gertrude Stein
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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I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
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there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
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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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There is no there there.
Gertrude Stein
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
Gertrude Stein
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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