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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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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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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
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Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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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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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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