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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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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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When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
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She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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