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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.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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