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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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Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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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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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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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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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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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
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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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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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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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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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
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