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If you can do it then why do it?

Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Forget grammar and think about potatoes
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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 tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
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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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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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