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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
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Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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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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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
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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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