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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
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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.
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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.
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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.
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Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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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
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
Gertrude Stein
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
Gertrude Stein
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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
A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
Gertrude Stein
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
Gertrude Stein
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
Gertrude Stein
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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