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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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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
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There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
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The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
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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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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
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there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
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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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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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There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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