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The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don't understand.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
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Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer.
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If you do not remember while you are writing, it may seem confused to others but actually it is clear and eventually that clarity will be clear, that is what a master-piece is, but if you remember while you are writing it will seem clear at the time to any one but the clarity will go out of it that is what a master-piece is not.
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What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
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It is natural to suppose that a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.
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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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I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket
It means wealth.
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More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.
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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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A comma by helping you along holding your coat for you and putting on your shoes keeps you from living your life as actively as you should lead it and to me for many years... the use of them was positively degrading.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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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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Star-light, what is star-light, star-light is a little light that is not always mentioned with the sun, it is mentioned with the moon and the sun, it is mixed up with the rest of the time.
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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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.
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The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.
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Born:
February 3, 1874
Died:
July 27, 1946
(aged 72)
Bio:
Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, and playwright.
Known for:
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
Tender Buttons
Three Lives (1909)
The Making of Americans (1925)
Everybody's Autobiography (1937)
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