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Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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We are always the same age inside.
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To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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