"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it."
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"Form and Intelligibility," from The Radcliffe Manuscripts (1949); written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College
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Gertrude Stein
1874 – 1946
US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin
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