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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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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.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
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You are all a lost generation.
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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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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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