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About Me

"Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. As I am an ardent californian and as she spent her youth there I have often begged her to be born in California but she has always remained firmly born in Alleghany, Pennsylvania. She left it when she was six months old and has never seen it again and now it no longer exists being all of it Pittsburgh. She used however to delight in being born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania when during the war, in connection with war work, we used to have papers made out and they always immediately wanted to know one's birth-place. She used to say if she had been really born in California as I wanted her to have been she would never have hgad the pleasure of seeing the various french officials try to write, Allegheny, Pennsylvania."

My Interests

In the bath this morning I was drumming on the side of the bathtub, I like moving around in the water in a bathtub, and I found myself drumming the Chopin funeral march and I might have stopped doing it but I went on because they used to play it on GOlden Gate Avenue in San Francisco and I was worrying then about identity and memory and eternity.I liked the photographers, there is one who came in and said he was sent to do a layout of me.

I'd like to meet:

"I remember one day it was the fourteenth of July and just the year of the Front Commun, and I happened to meet Monsieur Rosset and I said are you going in town, and he said why should I go in town. Well said I meekly it is the fourteenth of July."

Movies:

One of the things that happened at the end of the nineteenth century was that nobody knew the difference between a novel and a play and now the movies have helped them not to know but although there is none there really is an dI know there is and that is the reason I write plays and not novels.

Books:

+Alphabets and Birthdays
+As Fine as Melanctha, 1914-1930
+The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
+Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces, 1913-1927
+Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded
+Blood on the Dining-Room Floor
+A Book Concluding with As a Wife Has a Cow a Love Story
+Brewsie and Willie
+Composition as Explanation
+Everybody's Autobiography
+Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings
+Four In America.
+Four Saints in Three Acts.
+G.M.P. or Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories.
+The Geographical History of America; or, the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind.
+Geography and Plays
+Gertrude Stein, A Stein Reader
+Gertrude Stein on Picasso
+How to Write
+How Writing Is Written
+Ida
+Last Operas and Plays
+Lectures In America
+The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten
+Lucy Church Amiably
+The Making of Americans
+Mrs. Reynolds and Five Earlier Novelettes, 1931-1942
+Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein
+A Novel of Thank You
+Operas and Plays
+Painted Lace and Other Pieces, 1914-1937
+Paris France
+Picasso
+Portraits and Prayers
+A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein
+Reflection on the Atomic Bomb
+Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
+Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems, 1929-1933
+Tender Buttons
+Three Lives
+Two: Gertrued Stein and Her Brother and Other Early Portraits, 1908-1912
+Useful Knowledge
+What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them?
+The World Is Round

Heroes:

William James