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Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of 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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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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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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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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I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
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