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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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 like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
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I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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This joy you feel is life.
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I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.
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Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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