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"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." — Gertrude Stein
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"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." — 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." — Gertrude Stein
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"What was the use of my having come from Oakland, it was not natural to have come from there, yes, write about it if I like or anything, if I like, but not there, there is no there there" — Gertrude Stein
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"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is." — Gertrude Stein
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"I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought." — Gertrude Stein
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"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls" — Gertrude Stein
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"An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work." — Gertrude Stein
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"Romance is everything." — Gertrude Stein
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"Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking." — Gertrude Stein
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"A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style." — Gertrude Stein
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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house." — Gertrude Stein
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"Action and reaction are equal and opposite." — Gertrude Stein
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"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything." — Gertrude Stein
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"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population." — Gertrude Stein
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"Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family." — Gertrude Stein
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"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it." — Gertrude Stein
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"I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich." — Gertrude Stein
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"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed." — Gertrude Stein
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"In the United States there is more space where nobody is is than where anybody is." — Gertrude Stein
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"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is." — Gertrude Stein
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