American - Author | February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946
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.
Gertrude Stein
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
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A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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