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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
Gertrude Stein
each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
Gertrude Stein
You attract what you need like a lover
Gertrude Stein
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
Gertrude Stein
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude Stein
... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
Gertrude Stein
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
Gertrude Stein
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
Gertrude Stein
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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
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
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
Gertrude Stein
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
Gertrude Stein
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Gertrude Stein
