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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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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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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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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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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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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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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 is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
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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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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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No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
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