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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"


Finishing not wasting any little thing is beginning not wasting any
little thing. It is enough that all who are finishing not wasting any
little thing are bowing when what has been living has come to be dead by
rolling over after kneeling. It is enough that some who are finishing
not wasting any little thing are waiting and doing very little moving
when what is dying has not been dead enough to be rolling.
They have something growing those who are finishing wasting any little
thing and if that which is growing is showing it is a completing thing,
a strangely completing thing.
If one has a thing that on the front of him is browning and he is
proceeding and meaning is existing, that is if he is the one and any one
is proceeding then he is the one and he is proceeding.
If they did not like it they would do it and this was not lightly why
there were three of them sitting and this was not uneasily why three
were standing and this was not suddenly why five of them were coming and
this was not entirely why all of them were waiting.
They who had a house and had all of it were the ones who had enough of
it to come out and in and to do it often. If there were three of them
three houses there were all of them all of the three houses three
houses.
If making a little movement such as nodding is done then it is a custom
that any one meeting any one is not talking if they have not met that
one.


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