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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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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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Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
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To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
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But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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