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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"


All who stayed long enough and talked said what they said. He who talked
did not say what he said because he had been the one who had come to
stay away. And this was not anything. He liked having it and he liked
asking to leave it.
All of them were not alone. The way to be alone, the way to stand and
walk, the way to sit and look, the way to talk, all of it is not
beguiling and passing away is a way to complain.
Very likely they did not have a little more those who had and have what
they have. Very likely the ones they know are the ones they know. Very
likely it would not do any harm to say what they say as they do say what
they say. Very likely they can laugh when they laugh and very likely
they like what they like when they like what they like.
It is always a way to say that going away is a way in going away.
If stumbling is continuing then a side-walk is restoring. If a
side-walk is restoring then eating is satisfying. If eating is
satisfying then undertaking is beguiling. If undertaking is beguiling
then shooing is concentrating. If shooing is concentrating then
resounding is destroying. That is the way to sleep.
If a piece that is longer is longer and stirring is wetting then surely
no one need know anything.
To refuse is the way to refuse all the way and there is enough and to
spare when in being asked to take what is given not being there is all
there is of not having had anything.


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