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		latexr 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bored of It https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/there_is_no_there_there

rsynnott 9 months ago [–]

> From a remark by Gertrude Stein in Everybody's Autobiography (1937), concerning the fact that her childhood home in Oakland, California, no longer existed.

Huh. I did not realise it was originally in reference to an actual _place_.

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