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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Gertrude Stein

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Born Country Home Myself
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Audacity Life Love Share Skill
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Desire Myself Thinking
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.
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Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Eat Interest Yourself
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Death Myself Way
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work
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.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
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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Change Money Yourself
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Circle Deal Greatness Necessary Ourselves
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
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

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