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on punctuation by gertrude stein
they are unnecessary, they are ugly, they spoil the line of the writing or the printing and anyway what is the use
if you do not know that a question is a question what is the use of its being a question.
the same thing is true of a quotation.
When I was writing those long sentences of The Making of Americans, verbs active present verbs with long dependent adverbial clauses became a passion with me.