"Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass."

-- Elizabeth Hardwick

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“It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.”
“There is no retracing our steps.”
“I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.”
“I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.”
“Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.”
“Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.”
“Better to be disliked than pitied.”
“Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.”

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