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Quotes from Composition as Explanation — Gertrude Stein

1874–1946 United States

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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Composition as Explanation (1926)

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

Composition as Explanation (1926)

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