"An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work."
-Gertrude Stein
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"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.“
-Gertrude Stein
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