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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
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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
Gertrude Stein
You attract what you need like a lover
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
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude Stein
More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
Gertrude Stein
Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
Gertrude Stein
I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
Gertrude Stein
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
Gertrude Stein
Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
Gertrude Stein
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
Gertrude Stein
It is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude Stein
More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
Gertrude Stein
Too few is as many as too many.
Gertrude Stein
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
Gertrude Stein
... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
Gertrude Stein
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
Gertrude Stein
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
Gertrude Stein
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
Gertrude Stein
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
Gertrude Stein
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude Stein