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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
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