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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.
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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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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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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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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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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
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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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