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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
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Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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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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... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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If you can do it then why do it?
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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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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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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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