The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are no... - Gertrude Stein

This quote is attributed to Gertrude Stein.

"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you then say you are and not it."

Gertrude Stein Truth

Novelist Poet American 1874–1946

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