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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
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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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You attract what you need like a lover
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.
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Two things are always the same the dance and war.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
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... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
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