“A FEATHER.

A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.”

—  Gertrude Stein , book Tender buttons: objects, food, rooms

Source: Tender Buttons

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

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