40 quotes by Gertrude Stein

“What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.” — Gertrude Stein

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“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.” — Gertrude Stein

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“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.” — Gertrude Stein

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“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Romance is everything.” — Gertrude Stein

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“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.” — Gertrude Stein

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“I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” — Gertrude Stein

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“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

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“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.” — Gertrude Stein

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“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

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“Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.” — Gertrude Stein

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“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.” — Gertrude Stein

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