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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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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
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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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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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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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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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