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Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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
Gertruda Staĭn
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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If you can do it then why do it?
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Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
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