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“A diary means yes indeed.”

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein, an American writer born on February 3, 1874, and died on July 27, 1946. She is renowned for her unique writing style and her influence on modernist literature. more

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“Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.”

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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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“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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“Let me listen to me and not to them.”

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“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”

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“Action and reaction are equal and opposite.”

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“It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.”

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“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”

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