There Is No There There Definition
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The indicated thing, person, or other matter has no distinctive identity , or no significant characteristics, or no functional center point; nothing significant exists in that place ; nothing significant is occurring in that situation.
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Origin of There Is No There There
From a remark by Gertrude Stein in Everybody's Autobiography (1937), concerning the fact that her childhood home in California no longer existed.
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