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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
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You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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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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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
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there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
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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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