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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.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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