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How I wish I were able to say what I think.

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 just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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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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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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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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