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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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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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The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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We are always the same age inside.
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If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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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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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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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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If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
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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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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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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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