40 quotes by Gertrude Stein

“We are always the same age inside.” — Gertrude Stein

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“It is very easy to love alone.” — Gertrude Stein

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“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.” — Gertrude Stein

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“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.” — Gertrude Stein

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“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.” — Gertrude Stein

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“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.” — Gertrude Stein

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“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.” — Gertrude Stein

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“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Very likely education does not make very much difference.” — Gertrude Stein

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“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.” — Gertrude Stein

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“It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.” — Gertrude Stein

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“But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'” — Gertrude Stein

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“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.” — Gertrude Stein

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“It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.” — Gertrude Stein

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“It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.” — Gertrude Stein

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“I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.” — Gertrude Stein

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“It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.” — Gertrude Stein

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“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.” — Gertrude Stein

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“This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.” — Gertrude Stein

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“History takes time. History makes memory.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.” — Gertrude Stein

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“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.” — Gertrude Stein

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“The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.” — Gertrude Stein

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