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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 have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
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
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
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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
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
Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
Gertrude Stein
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
Gertrude Stein
Money is always there but the pockets change.
Gertrude Stein
The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
Gertrude Stein
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
Gertrude Stein
... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
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
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
Gertrude Stein
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
Gertrude Stein
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
Gertrude Stein