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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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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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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
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