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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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There is no there there.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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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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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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Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
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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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The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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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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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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You are all a lost generation.
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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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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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