Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.
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Miss Gertrude Stein was as light as a bright
Gertrude Stein was on her dying bed;
(i.e. she was dying, not the bed) :
the doctor came in, Alice walking ahead;
‘What’s the answer, Doc? ’ said Miss Stein;
that was what Miss Gertrude Stein said.
but the doctor merely shook his head;
standing there at the head of the bed,
side to sighed he shook his head.
Miss Stein was as bright as a bright bright ray
of light until her dying day
(i.e. she was dying, not the day)
and there to the doctor at the head of the bed
she said
‘Then, what’s the question? …’ – leaving
Alice laughing in her grieving
oh yes oh yes Miss Stein was bright,
she, did not rage at the dying of the light.
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Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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There is no there there.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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If you can do it then why do it?
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Romance is everything.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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We are always the same age inside.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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It is very easy to love alone.
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Remarks are not literature.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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