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“... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.”

Quote by Gertrude Stein

Book:Wars I have seen

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Wars I have seen

This book delves into the personal accounts and reflections of the author, providing a unique perspective on the complexities and human impact of war. more

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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

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“Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.”

Thinking World Humans Differences Human Beings Perfect Streets Example Source Newspapers Journalism Thoughtful Thinker Artificial Typical Superficial Main Street

Author:Gertrude Stein

“One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.”

Doe Different Happens Certain Differences One Thing Youth Aging Expected

Author:Gertrude Stein

“We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they know that eighty percent of them are not going to succeed more than to just keep going and why if they are not why do they not keep on being interested in the things that interested them when they were college men and why American men different from English men do not get more interesting as they get older.”

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Author:Gertrude Stein

“A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.”

Time Communication Conversation Indifference Can Not Finnish

Book:The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes

Source: The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes

“Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.”

Long Real Humanity Language Sound Emotion Doubt Color Goes On Intellectual Imitation Real Things Recreation

Book:Writings, 1932-1946

Source: Writings, 1932-1946

“The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.”

World Years Firsts War Reason Truth Fiction Truth Is Hundred First Time Stranger War Of The Worlds Peculiar World War Ii World War I Unreasonable Stranger Than Fiction

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realising everything and every one comes out of them in repeating. More and more then every one comes to be clear to some one.”

Way Feelings Clear Speech Realising

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

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

Ifs Would Be Desire Wish Ocean Fishes Fishing

Author:Gertrude Stein

“One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.”

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Book:Writings, 1932-1946

Source: Writings, 1932-1946

“... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.”

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Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen