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More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.
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