Name	Gertrude Stein
Height	5' 1"  (155 cm)
Build	Large
Hair Color	Grey
Date of Birth	February 3, 1874
Birthplace	Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Star Sign	Aquarius
Died	July 27, 1946 (Aged 72)
Location of Death	Paris, France
Cause of Death	stomach cancer
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	White
Religion	Jewish
University	Radcliffe College Johns Hopkins Medical School
Occupation	Poet
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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There ain`t no answer. There ain`t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That`s the answer.

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

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Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.

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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

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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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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

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We are always the same age inside.

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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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Silent gratitude isn`t very much use to anyone.

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"Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money."

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