America

aphorism

coffee

communist

creator

D.H. Lawrence

disappointment

Ezra Pound

familiarity

genius

identity

money

Niagara Falls

Oakland

October

rose

vegetable garden

writing

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

art collector

novelist

playwright

poet

innovator in the field of

modernism

intellectual movement

sexual orientation

lesbian

salonnière

Modernist literature

autobiographer

librettist

poetry

cause of death

natural causes

is a country that is what it is because there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

is a country where there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what she is.

is not everything. It's just about everything.

Art isn't everything. It's just about everything. (Gertrude Stein)

is something happening, an event, a place to be, somewhere within oneself, it gives one time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be oneself.

Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

is a person who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation. We are always the same age inside.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation. We are always the same age inside.

is an impossible person: he's pathetic and preposterous, he writes like a sick man.

is a village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

is funny. You are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

is differentiated from the animal by only one thing: money.

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

is the only thing that differentiates man from animals.

Niagara Falls is beautiful for thirty seconds. — Gertrude Stein

Oakland is a city where there is no there there.

is a city where, when you get there, there isn't any there there.

When you get there, there isn't any there there. [of Oakland]

is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

is a destructive element for man (insofar as man is defined by going where he is not wanted and does not belong). It is the place where man is not naturally adapted, and so is the only place in which man feels he can really live.

Man, as Stein has remarked, comes 'where he is not wanted, where there is no place for him'... the sea is the destructive element because it is not the element to which man is naturally adapted, and yet it is the only one in which he can live.

, in the beginning, looks so promising and then after all, little by little, it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

is such that to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. (Gertrude Stein)

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