I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that … - Gertrude Stein

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Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.

Gertrude Stein

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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