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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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