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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.”

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein, an American writer born on February 3, 1874, and died on July 27, 1946. She is renowned for her unique writing style and her influence on modernist literature. more

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