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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"


A feather, what is a feather, a feather is restraint, and this shows in
yellow, it does not show in every color.
Why is there white which is creamy, there is white which is creamy
because it is necessary.
The whole cabinet shows that uselessness is not tearful. No excitement
is necessary, it is sadness that is eaten.
A window and a wife, a chair and a stable, all very likely to be in the
habit of extracting precise results. This is so manifest, it is so
precious and perfect.
A plain light, what is a plain light a plain light is twinkling. Is
there any credit given when there is a frog, there is not. All the same
it is very good to be busy, to be gracious and to be religious, it is
very good to be grand and disturbed and exchanging, a sign of energy is
in a soup, is there no sign of energy. There is a little joke in all the
mice, there is a little tenderness in soup, there is a plant, there is a
coat, there are seven dresses to see, there is no doubt any choice in
that, there is certainly a single obligation for a hat, there is no
doubt that there is no curve, no curve, at all to a shape, there is no
doubt that something has that way.
Climate is not a color. A little thing is a color. When to discover and
when to disturb and when to lead a rock away all this is known and no
disgrace.

Can a question be clear. Can a pin be a shape.


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