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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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