“All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.”

—  Gertrude Stein

Mrs. Reynolds and Five Earlier Novelettes (1952) Pt. 1 (written 1940-1943)

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

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