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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
Gertrude Stein
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein
The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.
Gertrude Stein
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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.
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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
Gertrude Stein
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
Gertrude Stein
Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
Gertrude Stein
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
Gertrude Stein
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
Gertrude Stein
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
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
Gertrude Stein
One must dare to be happy.
Gertrude Stein
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
Gertrude Stein
