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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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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Stein wryly admits to wanting wealth while refusing to embrace the effort, compromise, or hustle typically required to earn it, highlighting a knowing contradiction between ambition and an unwillingness to do what accumulating riches demands.
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