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Gertrude Stein

"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."

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"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."

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"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."

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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

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"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"
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"It is very easy to love alone."
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"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."
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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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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"Hemingway's remarks are not literature."
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"In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody."
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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
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