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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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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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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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You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
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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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If you can do it then why do it?
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I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
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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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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
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