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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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You are all a lost generation.
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I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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