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It often makes me know that as a cousin of mine once said about money, 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.

— Gertrude Stein Wars I Have Seen (1945)

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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

What Is English Literature? (1935)

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Everybody’s Autobiography (1937)

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946)

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting

Paris France (1940)

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