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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), U.S. author. Originally published in Transition (March 1932). "Answer to Eugene Jolas," How Writing Is Written, Black Sparrow Press (1974).

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