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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.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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