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Gertrude Stein

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Death Hope Illusion Natural Ourselves
How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Desire Myself Thinking
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Audacity Life Love Share Skill
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself
You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Brilliant Care Lifestyle Live Place Strange Yourself
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Gratitude Silence Thankful
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Answer Philosophy
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
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.
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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Belief Myself Success Trust Try Unknown Work

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