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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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More quotes by Gertrude Stein
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
Gertrude Stein
Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
Gertrude Stein
To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
Gertrude Stein
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
Gertrude Stein
Too few is as many as too many.
Gertrude Stein
Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
Gertrude Stein
A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
Gertrude Stein
If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
Gertrude Stein
When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
Gertrude Stein
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
Gertrude Stein
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
Gertrude Stein
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
Gertrude Stein
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
Gertrude Stein
I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
Gertrude Stein
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
Gertrude Stein
