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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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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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One must dare to be happy.
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... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.
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