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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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.
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A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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