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History takes time. History makes memory.
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
there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
Gertrude Stein
I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
Gertrude Stein
To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
Gertrude Stein
Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
Gertrude Stein
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude Stein
When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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.
Gertrude Stein
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
Gertrude Stein
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
Gertrude Stein
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
Gertrude Stein
Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
Gertrude Stein
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
Gertrude Stein
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
Gertrude Stein
Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
Gertrude Stein
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Gertrude Stein
