“Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.”

—  Gertrude Stein

What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936), Afterword of a later edition

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American art collector and experimental writer of novels, p… 1874–1946

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