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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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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.
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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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You are all a lost generation.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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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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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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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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