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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 is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
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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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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
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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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... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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This joy you feel is life.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
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