“A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohe...”
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Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914 (Gertrude and Leo), and the second with her partner Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946 (Gertrude and Alice). Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein also cultivated significant relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein
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“A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohe...”
“I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.”
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“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”
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“I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adoles...”
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“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the o...”
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“It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.”
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“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.”
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“Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.”
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“The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.”
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“It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecu...”
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“Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.”
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“Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.”
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“You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.”
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“I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.”
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“What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.”
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“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”
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“Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.”
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“Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.”
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“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”
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“Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.”
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