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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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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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