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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
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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.
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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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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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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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You cannot go into the womb to form the child it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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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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... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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