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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"


This is the time to say that a bath is not so clean when there is no
soap to be seen. A bath is clean when the bather has the wish to state
and is full-filling everything.
A way to spend the day is to give away the time to say that is not the
day that is to be used that way. Every day is to be used that way. That
is that installation.
Be the same complainer and then quarrel nicely, agree too arrange
speaking first and then dismiss the visitor, accept the late arrival of
the one who is there to say that he is welcome, disturb the time by not
coming to say good-by, that is one way of changing a dismal way.
To relieve the heat by saying that some one is neat is the way to have
winter come earlier and not stay later. All the pleasure of having been
telling what is the laughter when there is no spelling has come to be
drowned by the experience of one who has earned some changing of the
house she had been engaging. The pleasure of conquest is the same when
distraction has no limit. The quick way to say that beauty is not in the
way is the way that the one receiving the offering of adjusting all the
pleasure has all the sweetness of decision. Beauty is the thing to see
when beauty is there. Any little way is all that and the question is
answered. There is no choice.
To lift a plant and see it green this does mean that there is a plant
and green is more color than any other.


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