A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
~ Gertrude Stein

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We are always the same age inside.
~ Gertrude Stein

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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
~ Gertrude Stein

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A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
~ Gertrude Stein

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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
~ Gertrude Stein

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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.
~ Gertrude Stein

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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
~ Gertrude Stein

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