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• One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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  Maturity, Get Better, Doe

  Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Thomas Wolfe (1945). “The Crack-up”

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• Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

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  Bored, Literature, Scared

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.94, Random House

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• Any time is the time to make a poem.

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  Poetry

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.162, Vintage

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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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  Sound, Answers, Has Beens

  Gertrude Stein (1946). “Brewsie and Willie”

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• A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

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  Writing, Eye, Creative

  Gertrude Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). “A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein”

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• It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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  Time, Women, Philosophical

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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• Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

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  Assuming, Position

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.70, Taylor & Francis

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• I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

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  Literature, Mouths, Portraits

  Gertrude Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). “A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein”

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• I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

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  Feelings, Want

  Gertrude Stein (2010). “Narration: Four Lectures”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

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  Literature, Audience

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “How to Write”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Forget grammar and think about potatoes

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  Thinking, Potatoes, Forget

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “How to Write”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.

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  Inspirational, Track, Vision

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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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  Inspirational, Women, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.14, Vintage

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• This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

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  Literature, Lessons, Repetition

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• How I wish I were able to say what I think.

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  Thinking, Wish, Speech

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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• It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

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  Winning, Defeated, Loses

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• Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

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  Reading, Writing, Writing And Reading

  Gertrude Stein (1940). “What are Masterpieces”, New York : Pitman Publishing Corporation

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• art is the pulse of a nation.

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  Art, Pulse, Art Is

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• When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

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  Being Alone, Memorable, Feeling Alone

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6173, Delphi Classics

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• In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

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  Thinking, Government, America

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• Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

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  Life, Happiness, Beautiful

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6135, Delphi Classics

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• There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

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  Nouns

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• I am I because my little dog knows me.

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  Friendship, Dog, Littles

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.593, Northwestern University Press

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• Money is always there but the pockets change.

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  Funny, Money, Pockets

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.31, Random House

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• A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

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  Real, Doe, Needs

  "Four in America". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1947.

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