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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
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
Gertrude Stein
One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
Gertrude Stein
... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
Gertrude Stein
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
Gertrude Stein
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
Gertrude Stein
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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
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
The artist works by locating the world in himself
Gertrude Stein
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
Gertrude Stein
There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
Gertrude Stein
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
Gertrude Stein
You attract what you need like a lover
Gertrude Stein
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
Gertrude Stein
If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.
Gertrude Stein
Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
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
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein