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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
Gertrude Stein
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
Gertrude Stein
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
Gertrude Stein
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
Gertrude Stein
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
Gertrude Stein
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
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
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
Gertrude Stein
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
Gertrude Stein
Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
Gertrude Stein
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
Gertrude Stein
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
Gertrude Stein
I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
Gertrude Stein
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
Gertrude Stein
You are all a lost generation.
Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
Gertrude Stein
There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
Gertrude Stein
I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
Gertrude Stein
