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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
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