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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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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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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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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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