A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation. (Gertrude Stein)

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Gertrude Stein

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