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Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein

Top 10 Best Quotes

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

“A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.”

“Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.”

“A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.”

“Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet”

“What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. - A substance in a cushion”

“A piece of crystal. A change, in a change that is remarkable there is no reason to say that there was a time.”

“A cool red rose and a pink cut pink, a collapse and a sold hole, a little less hot. - Red roses.”

“replacing a casual aquaintance with an ordinary daughter does not make a son.”

“When is there some discharge when. There never is.”

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