American - Author | February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
Gertrude Stein
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Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
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