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Quotation by Gertrude Stein
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"A Birthday Book" Alphabets and Birthdays, Yale University Press (1957)"A Circular Play" A Stein Reader, ed. Ulla E. Dydo, Northwestern University Press (1993)"Adele" Q.E.D. (1903)"Advertisement" Useful Knowledge, Station Hill Press (1988)"A Manoir" Last Operas and Plays, Rinehart (1949)
... to know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing ...
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), U.S. author and patron of the arts; relocated to France. What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936).
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