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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Gertrude Stein

How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Preference Question Yourself
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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Feeling Kind Live Old Silly Yourself
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Answer Philosophy
I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Appearance Choice Dance Yourself
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Poetry Words Writing
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Death Myself Way
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Enough Honesty Myself Selfish Virtue
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Difference Forget Myself Time
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Extraordinary Family Forget Yourself

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