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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

Gertrude Stein

It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Better Defeat Lose Winner
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Funny Happiness Money Shop
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Boast Listening Need Oneself
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Genius Time Work Yourself
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Animal Dog Existence Myself
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Declare Myself Patience Patient
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Poetry Words Writing
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing
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

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