A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period that lets you stop and take a breath but if you want to take a breath you ought to know yourself that you want to take a breath.


Lectures in America (1935)

Gertrude Stein Quotes

A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period...

A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period...

A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period...

A long complicated sentence should force itself upon you, make you know yourself knowing it and the comma, well at the most a comma is a poor period...