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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"


In pleasing and he did say what he said he knew he said, in pleasing he
was staying where he said he had been staying when he had come to be
leaving. In pleasing he was reciting what staying had been when he could
have been leaving. In staying he was saying that he knew that he was
saying what he was saying.
Sitting together and if there was room for six there was room for ten,
sitting together they could follow two and they did follow one. Sitting
together they said what they said when they saw what they had seen.
They did not sit together when they were saying what they knew they were
saying, they were staying and beginning that it had come to pass that
all who were leaving had been staying.
If walking fast tired one, listening tired one. If talking tired one,
not talking tired one. If staying tired one, leaving did not tire one.
If saying that he knew what he was saying tired one, talking did not
tire one.
If hurrying was what not any one of them was doing, waiting was not what
any one of them was doing. If persisting was what one of them was doing,
hesitating was what that one was doing.
They did not declare that they were there and they were not there when
they declared that they were staying where they were going. It was not
all of the urging that had come out of anything that decided everything.
It was not the troubling every one that hurt every one.


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