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 SteinThere is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Gertrude SteinI could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
Gertrude SteinOnce an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.
Gertrude Stein