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ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start…

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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge…
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party…
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate…
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to…
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no…
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of…
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems…

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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly — Clifton Fadiman
Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do… — Edward Abbey
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators… — Jack Kerouac
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. — Leslie Fiedler
The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture… — Diana Vreeland
ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the… — Frederick Buechner
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look… — Gertrude Stein
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No… — James A. Baldwin
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say,… — James Laughlin
I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like… — Steven Morrissey
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his… — Jerry Saltz
You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but… — James Thurber

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