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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
Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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
The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein
The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
Gertrude Stein
But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
Gertrude Stein
It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.
Gertrude Stein
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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
Money is always there but the pockets change.
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
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
Gertrude Stein
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
Gertrude Stein
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein
