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“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)