“you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.”
Quote by Gertrude Stein
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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 so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.”
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“In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.”
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“[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”