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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
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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
An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
Gertrude Stein
A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
Gertrude Stein
One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
Gertrude Stein
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
Gertrude Stein
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude Stein
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
Gertrude Stein
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
Gertrude Stein
Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
Gertrude Stein
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
Gertrude Stein
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
Gertrude Stein
Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
Gertrude Stein
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
Gertrude Stein
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
Gertrude Stein
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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
To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
Gertrude Stein
If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
Gertrude Stein
