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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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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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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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