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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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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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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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You are all a lost generation.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
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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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If you can do it then why do it?
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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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I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
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