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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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 composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
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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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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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There is no there there.
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... 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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When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
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