The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.
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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.Gertrude Stein
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
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Let me listen to me and not them.
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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
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Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
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