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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
Gertrude Stein
Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
Gertrude Stein
each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
Gertrude Stein
We are always the same age inside.
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
there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
Gertrude Stein
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
Gertrude Stein
It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.
Gertrude Stein
Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
Gertrude Stein
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein
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
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
Gertrude Stein
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
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Gertrude Stein
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
Gertrude Stein
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
Gertrude Stein
To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
Gertrude Stein
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Gertrude Stein
I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
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
