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Quote by Gertrude Stein

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.”

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Gertrude Stein, an American writer born on February 3, 1874, and died on July 27, 1946. She is renowned for her unique writing style and her influence on modernist literature. more

“And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.”

White Crazy New York Holy Clouds East Dust California Brown Throwing Continents Steam Gloomy Throwing Up

Author:Jack Kerouac

“And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.”

Reading Lost Felt Leaving

Book:A Life in Letters

Source: A Life in Letters

“This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me”

Life Believe I Believe Stubborn Affliction Kill Me

Author:Patricia McCormick

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”

Romance Happy Endings

Author:Julia Quinn

“I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.”

I Can Today Romance Fall Novel Imagine Hero Falling In Love Romance Novel Heroines

Author:Julia Quinn

“I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.”

Thinking Knows Should Writing Wells Stories Feelings Jobs Sensitive Detectives Detective Stories

Book:The Nine Tailors

Source: The Nine Tailors

“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”

Men Whole Happens Saws Figures Endless Passing Passings Emptiness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.”

Men Particular Eternal Every Man Factors Unconscious Carrie Feminine Definite Memories Dreams Reflections Hereditary Animus

Author:Carl Jung

“Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?”

Thinking Firsts Said Guy Drink Humorous Ems Cows

Author:Bill Watterson

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