320
the first definite step
Lectures in America
320
I went to bed very miserable
To Mabel Weeks, undated, YCAL
320
a riot of colour
Claribel Cone, lecture notes. Papers owned by Ellen B. Hirschland
321
Donatello parmi les fauves
Louis Vauxcelles, Gil Blas, 20 March 1907
321
in the name of I-don’t-know
Ibid.
321
This new religion
Ibid.
321
We asked ourselves ‘Are these
Claribel Cone, lecture notes
321
it was what I was unknowingly
Leo Stein, Appreciation
323
Matisse brought people
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
323
The most hospitable
Vollard, Souvenirs d’un marchand
324
expounded and explained
Leo Stein, Journey into the Self
324
I made enormous charts
How Writing is Written, 1974
325
If the genius of men
Renée Sandall, ‘Marie Laurencin: Cubist Muse or More?’ Women’s Art Journal, vol 1, no. 1, Spring 1980
325
a good-looking bootblack
Gertrude Stein, Picasso, 1938
326
I can’t see you any
Ibid.
326
For me it is I and
Ibid.
327
I was alone at this time
Ibid.
327
to express things seen
Ibid.
328
the responsible daughter
Duncan, ‘Interview’
328
I felt most keenly
Rosenshine, ‘Life’s Not A Paragraph’
329
Since the startling news
Donald Gallup, ed., The Flowers of Friendship
329
She was a golden presence
Alice B. Toklas, What is Remembered
329
It is inevitable
Gertrude Stein, preface to Francisco Riba-Rovira exhibition at Galerie Roquépine, May 1945
330
Right here in front of
What is Remembered
331
It was the enormous life
Duncan, ‘Interview’
332
escaping from the inevitable
Narration
332
The typewriter had a rhythm
What is Remembered
332
like living history
Ibid.
333
Bear it in your mind my reader
The Making of Americans
333
I mean, I mean and that is
Ibid.
334
Day after day she wept
Levy, ‘Recollections’
334
I would rather harbour
Leo Stein to Mabel Weeks, February 1913, YCAL
335
there was no hesitation
Duncan, ‘Interview’
335
I always say that you
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
335
My proofreaders report
Gallup, Flowers
336
I want to say frankly
Ibid.
337
found the brilliant
Rosenshine, ‘Life’s Not A Paragraph’
337
I told you one time
Leo to Gertrude, undated, YCAL
337
He said it was not it it
Two
337
She doesn’t know what
Journey into the Self
337
It was I who was
Everybody’s Autobiography
338
Gertrude and I are
Journey into the Self
338
the beginning of the ending
Everybody’s Autobiography
338
I thought she was making fun
What is Remembered
338
There were many relations
Portraits and Prayers
338
She came to be happier
Ibid.
339
She was thinking
Two
340
Like all children and madmen
Leo to Mabel Weeks, undated, YCAL
340
Do you remember
As Fine As Melanctha
341
Alice Toklas entered the Stein
Luhan, Intimate Memories
341
He had always had
Ibid.
342
Please come down here soon
Ibid.
342
Eating alone with Edwin
Ibid.
342
white moonlight – white linen
Ibid.
343
The days are wonderful
Portraits and Prayers
343
such a strong look
Intimate Memories
343
a surprised noticing glance
Ibid.
344
Gertrude Stein is doing with
Mabel Dodge, Arts and Decoration, March 1913
345
Alice’s final and successful
Intimate Memories
346
We must be getting back to
Bravig Imbs, Confessions of Another Young Man
346
In the menu there should be
The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook
346
She is very necessary to me
Painted Lace
347
Our pleasure is to do every
‘Bonne Année’ in Geography and Plays
347
I marvel at my baby
‘Coal and Wood’ in Painted Lace
348
Having it as having having
As a Wife Has a Cow: A Love Story
348
to completely face
Tender Buttons
349
when he laughed
Intimate Memories
353
I say lifting belly
Lifting Belly: Bee Time Vine
354
a scary habit of talking
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
354
wrong or right, this is the
Ibid.
354
The wind blows
Geography and Plays
355
Their funny get-up
Georges Braque, ‘Testimony against Gertrude Stein’, transition, February 1935
356
It was as gay
The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook
356
It was a wonderful day
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
357
But they’re damned hard
Journey into the Self
357
It was those things
Confessions of Another Young Man
357
You have the gift of true
Ibid.
358
could make or mar
Ibid.
358
I was ostracised
Annette Rosenshine, ‘Life’s not a paragraph’
359
book of a woman
Cited in Linda Simon, The Biography of Alice B. Toklas
359
the atmosphere seemed
The Heart to Artemis
359
Do you know what she said
Quoted in The Formidable Miss Barnes
360
staunch presence
Quoted in Wickes, The Amazon of Letters
360
Dear Miss Gertrude
Sylvia Beach to Gertrude, June 1921, YCAL
360
persistently unhappy
Sherwood Anderson, Memoirs
361
You sometimes write
Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein correspondence
361
a strong woman with legs
Sherwood Anderson, Memoirs
361
I couldn’t see the necessity
Sylvia Beach, Shakespeare and Company
361
strong German-Jewish
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
363
I’m sorry to hear
Grace Hemingway to Ernest, February 1927
363
Killed my 2 buffalo
Hemingway to Arnold Gingrich, 18 January 1934
363
She used to talk to me
A Moveable Feast
364
We are surrounded by
Steward, Dear Sammy
364
I was startled. Not a bit
Emerald Cunard to Cyril Connolly, 1944
364
Gertrude Stein and me
Hemingway to Sherwood Anderson, 1922
364
all women who are truly
Otto Weininger, Sex and Character
365
I’ve thought a lot about
Hemingway, Selected Letters
366
Among and then young
Portraits and Prayers
366
Ford alleges he is delighted
February 1924, Hemingway, Selected Letters
368
it is something really
Scott Fitzgerald to Maxwell Perkins, 1 May 1925
368
I am a very second rate
Scott Fitzgerald to Gertrude, June 1925
369
It is funny, the two
Everybody’s Autobiography
369
If he was not an
Hemingway to Cowley, 16 September 1951 Neville Collection
369
I cross myself and swear
Hemingway, Friday morning, autumn 1929
369
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