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The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Remarks aren't literature.
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Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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