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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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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Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
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The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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