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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
Gertrude Stein
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
Gertrude Stein
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
Gertrude Stein
If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.
Gertrude Stein
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
Gertrude Stein
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
Gertrude Stein
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Gertrude Stein
A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
Gertrude Stein
There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
Gertrude Stein
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
Gertrude Stein
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
Gertrude Stein
When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
Gertrude Stein
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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
It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.
Gertrude Stein
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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