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The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Very likely education does not make very much difference. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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