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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"

It was
deciding believing that which was expecting demonstrating.
They all were where any one who was not there was and they all were
where they would be when they were where they had come when they had
stayed as they had stayed, because they had stayed and staying and
saying that which they were knowing they were completely what if
emerging is accepting constraining is not destroying and intending is
continuing.
In having meaning, in expecting realisation, in deserting wearying, in
exhausting attending, in loving insisting, in embarking anything, in
continuing meaning, in persisting working, in hoping having been
realising, in urging continuous hoping, in longing for existing, in
hearing encouraging, in desolating what is waiting, in returning what
has been being the ridiculous part of everything, in remembering all of
conquering that has meaning, in straining all of selling that has
buying, in operating all the desolation that has repeating, in all that
is and was these who were and came were the ones who are when they stay
and do not remain where they will be, these were the ones who are when
they are and they are when they are as they had when they had what they
had because they did not have what they could have since they did not
have all they did have as they were when they are.
In staying and not waiting in choosing and progressing, in following and
destroying, in succeeding and denying, in aspiring and varying in
remaining and not saddening, in looking often, in expecting everything,
in remaining after leaving choosing some, in selling after succeeding,
in expecting to be selling after succeeding, in not denying selling
after succeeding, in saying that saying can be saying, in arranging to
be seeing what has been being seen when it has been seen, in returning
when changing, in not going back in returning, in succeeding when they
were remaining, in remaining when they had been succeeding, in remaining
when they were not going to be succeeding, they were living.


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