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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
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No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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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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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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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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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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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 look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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