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Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends

Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?

Gertrude Stein
People, Mind, World

You can either buy clothes or buy pictures.

Gertrude Stein
Clothes

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Gertrude Stein
Confidence, Country, War
Gertrude Stein (1945). “Wars I Have Seen”, New York : Random House

August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

Gertrude Stein
August, Weather, Hot
Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Gertrude Stein
Food, Garden, Vegetables
Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.46, Random House

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