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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
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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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If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.
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The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
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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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