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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

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

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“there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.”

ThinkingKnowsWayGivingFeelingsWaitingAliveDyingEatingAlways Waiting
Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)
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“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.”

LongCountryFatherDoubtToo MuchReadyLong TimeEnglandNo DoubtDepressingCheerfulCheerfulnessFrancoFatheringTrotsky
Author:Gertrude Stein
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