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“I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him.”

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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

“Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.”

Important Care Certain Pay Successful Written Ready Important Words

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.”

Ifs Doe Differences Surprise

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.”

Ifs Should America Worry Bother

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.”

Doe Real Wanted Three Interesting Four Saint Martyr Doing Nothing

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

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