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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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More quotes by Gertrude Stein
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
Gertrude Stein
Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
Gertrude Stein
Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
Gertrude Stein
I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
Gertrude Stein
You are all a lost generation.
Gertrude Stein
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein
I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
Gertrude Stein
If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
Gertrude Stein
I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
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
Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
Gertrude Stein
I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
Gertrude Stein
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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
there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
Gertrude Stein
Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
Gertrude Stein
... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.
Gertrude Stein
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Gertrude Stein
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
Gertrude Stein
How I wish I were able to say what I think.
Gertrude Stein
