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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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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
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More quotes by 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
Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
Gertrude Stein
I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
Gertrude Stein
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
Gertrude Stein
Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
Gertrude Stein
If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
Gertrude Stein
There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
Gertrude Stein
How I wish I were able to say what I think.
Gertrude Stein
Money is always there but the pockets change.
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
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
Gertrude Stein
. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
Gertrude Stein
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
Gertrude Stein
History takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude Stein
The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
Gertrude Stein
More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
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
Argument is to me the air I breathe.
Gertrude Stein
