#peas

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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#duchess #earth #nothing #peasant #sees