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Gertrude Stein was referring to the fact that in the 1930s, returning to her hometown of Oakland, CA, she could no longer find her childhood home there.The quote has been taken to refer to Oakland, in response to which the city installed a public art sculpture of the word "There". more

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Gertrude Stein

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Everybody's Autobiography

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1937

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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

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What is the answer? -- Silence In that case, what is the question?

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

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

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