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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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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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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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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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Remarks aren't literature.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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