I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a mi…

Gertrude Stein
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I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything. ✨ Gertrude Stein (1969). Narration: four lectures
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