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Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
Gertrude Stein
Nothing
Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
Gertrude Stein
Literature
History takes time. History makes memory.
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History
Time
Memory
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
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Reality
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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Family
Dream
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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War
We are always the same age inside.
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Age
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
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Marriage
Religion
Abundance
End
Protection
Renunciation
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
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Love
Music
Country
Passion
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
Question
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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Want
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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Lie
Job
Old
Silly
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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Sex
Literature
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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Argument
Help
A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
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Country