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The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant tills it.

— Gertrude Stein Everybody’s Autobiography (1937)

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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

What Is English Literature? (1935)

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

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Everybody’s Autobiography (1937)

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946)

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting

Paris France (1940)

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