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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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 is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
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The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
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There is no there there.
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