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You are all a lost generation.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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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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