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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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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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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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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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A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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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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Remarks aren't literature.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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