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Every man is the maker of his own fortune
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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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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A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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