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each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
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
No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
Gertrude Stein
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.
Gertrude Stein
There is no there there.
Gertrude Stein
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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
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
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
Gertrude Stein
The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
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
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein
She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
Gertrude Stein
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
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
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
Gertrude Stein
I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
Gertrude Stein
