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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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