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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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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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It is very easy to love alone.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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