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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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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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