it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you coul — Gertrude Stein
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you coul — Gertrude Stein
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you coul — Gertrude Stein
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you coul — Gertrude Stein
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you coul — Gertrude Stein
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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.

— Gertrude Stein
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