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.
(Wars I Have Seen, 1945)

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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Gertrude Stein (Everybody's Autobiography, 1937)

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein (Quoted in The American Treasury, 1955)

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

Gertrude Stein (Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)

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