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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
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Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.
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An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
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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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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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