Gertrude Stein
Quotations
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“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.” -Gertrude Stein
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“Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.” -Gertrude Stein
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“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.” -Gertrude Stein
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“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” -Gertrude Stein
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“I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.” -Gertrude Stein
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“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.” -Gertrude Stein
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“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.” -Gertrude Stein
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“There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.” -Gertrude Stein
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“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.” -Gertrude Stein
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“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.” -Gertrude Stein
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“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.” -Gertrude Stein
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“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.” -Gertrude Stein
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“What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.” -Gertrude Stein
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“The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.” -Gertrude Stein
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“But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’” -Gertrude Stein
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“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.” -Gertrude Stein
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“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.” -Gertrude Stein
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“History takes time. History makes memory.” -Gertrude Stein
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“It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.” -Gertrude Stein
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“I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.” -Gertrude Stein
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“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.” -Gertrude Stein
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“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.” -Gertrude Stein
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“It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.” -Gertrude Stein
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“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.” -Gertrude Stein
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“Very likely education does not make very much difference.” -Gertrude Stein
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“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.” -Gertrude Stein
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“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.” -Gertrude Stein
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“Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.” -Gertrude Stein
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“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.” -Gertrude Stein
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“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn’t make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.” -Gertrude Stein
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. – Gertrude Stein
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