It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,
Gertrude SteinTags: history change gertrude-stein narration four-lectures
I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
Gertrude SteinTags: love poetry gertrude-stein narration peculiar
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 adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.
Gertrude SteinTags: writing adolescence narrative gertrude-stein narration
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
Gertrude SteinWake a question. Eat an instant, answer
Gertrude SteinIf the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
Gertrude SteinI am I because my little dog knows me.
Gertrude SteinIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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 one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.
Gertrude SteinTags: imagination writing writers interior-life life-of-the-mind
A rose is a rose is a rose.
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