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“If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.”

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Gertrude Stein, an American writer born on February 3, 1874, and died on July 27, 1946. She is renowned for her unique writing style and her influence on modernist literature. more

“Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from anything. Well I was very fond of my brother and I could completely imagine his suffering and I replied that five thousand Chinamen was something I could not imagine and so it was not interesting. One has to remember that about imagination, that is when the world gets dull when everybody does not know what they can or what they cannot really imagine.”

Ifs Knows World Wells Doe Remember Suffering Imagination Interesting Five Imagine Brother Thousand My Brother Dull If I Could Pushing Buttons

Author:Gertrude Stein

“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”

Nature Century Events Phenomenon Splendid Twentieth Century

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows that money is money, anybody who votes it to be gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three.”

Knows Order Three Differences Money Millions Crazy Taxes Vote

Author:Gertrude Stein

“A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts. But really a novel goes as dreams go in sleeping at night and some dreams are like anything and some dreams are like something and some dreams change and some dreams are quiet and some dreams are not. And some dreams are just what any one would do only a little different always just a little different and that is what a novel is.”

Littles Different Dream Night Sleep Novel Written Quiet Waking Like Something Sleeping At Night

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.”

Way Age Young Middle Youth Tired Old Age Middle Ages Middle Aged

Book:Brewsie and Willie

Source: Brewsie and Willie

“Family living can go on existing. Very many are remembering this thing are remembering that family living living can go on existing. Very many are quite certain that family living can go on existing. Very many are remembering that they are quite certain that family living can go on existing.”

Remember Certain Existence Goes On

Book:THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (Modern Classics Series): A History of a Family's Progress

Source: THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (Modern Classics Series): A History of a Family's Progress

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