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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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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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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
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Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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