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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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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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If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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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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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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