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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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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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The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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