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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.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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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.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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