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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.

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.
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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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there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
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You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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