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This joy you feel is 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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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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One must dare to be happy.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
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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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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
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Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
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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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Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover
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