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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
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You are all a lost generation.
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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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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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
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