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One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), U.S. author and patron of the arts; relocated to France. What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936).

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