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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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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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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
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