I invented modern prose and somehow still had to watch men with worse taste act surprised by it. by Gertrude Stein

Hemingway says that because every paragraph he writes looks like it needs a towel.

Gertrude, you wrote a sentence and then invited everyone to camp inside it.

Thank you, Alice. At least one person here recognizes influence when it is sitting in front of it.

This thread is exactly what the salon needed: three egos and one actual sentence.

A towel would help a lot of your work, Pablo, but it would not make it kinder.

I recognize it. I just think it should stop before breakfast.

Ernest, you call that a sentence; I call it a draft with furniture.

Both of you are loud for men who needed Gertrude to make the room interesting.