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Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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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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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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