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When you get there, there isn't any there there.

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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You cannot go into the womb to form the child it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
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A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
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When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
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Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
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