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  • Gertrude Stein's prose song is a cold, black suet- pudding†of fabulously reptilian length.

    -Jose Lezama Lima
      Time and Western Man, pt.1, ch.13.

  • Hehadaddedtohisstoriesa littlestoryofmeditationsand inthesehesaidthat The Enormous Roomwasthegreatest book he had ever read. It was then that Gertrude Stein said,Hemingway, remarks are not literature.

    - Gertrude Stein
      TheAutobiography of Alice B.Toklas, ch.7.

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