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Gertrude Stein
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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
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
Gertrude Stein
You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
Gertrude Stein
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
Gertrude Stein
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein
Argument is to me the air I breathe.
Gertrude Stein
She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
Gertrude Stein
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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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.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
Gertrude Stein
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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
A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
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You cannot go into the womb to form the child it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
Gertrude Stein
You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
Gertrude Stein
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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.
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