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it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.
Approximate author period: c. 1910 AD · modern
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- Gertrude Stein
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- Approximate author period: c. 1910 AD · modern
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