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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
Gertrude Stein
there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
Gertrude Stein
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
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
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
One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
Gertrude Stein
History takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude Stein
War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
Gertrude Stein
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
Gertrude Stein
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
Gertrude Stein
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
Gertrude Stein
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
Gertrude Stein
each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
Gertrude Stein
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
Gertrude Stein
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
Gertrude Stein
This joy you feel is life.
Gertrude Stein