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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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More quotes by Gertrude Stein
How I wish I were able to say what I think.
Gertrude Stein
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein
Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
Gertrude Stein
I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...
Gertrude Stein
There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
Gertrude Stein
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
Gertrude Stein
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
Gertrude Stein
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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
To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
Gertrude Stein
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein
And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
Gertrude Stein
