Quotation by Gertrude Stein

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), U.S. author; relocated to France. Wars I Have Seen (1945).

Written in 1943.
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