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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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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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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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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
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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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It is very easy to love alone.
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Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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