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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
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Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
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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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Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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