Gertrude Stein Quotes

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• Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

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  Morning, Joy, Miracle

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  You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

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  Looks, Might, Ridiculous

  Gertrude Stein (2015). “Three Lives”, Xist Publishing

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  Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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  Inspirational, Knowledge, Technology

  1959 'Reflection on the Atomic Bomb', collected in Robert A Goodwin (ed) Readings in World Politics (1959).

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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.

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  Inspirational, Political, Nerd

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• Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• We are always the same age inside.

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  Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

  "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

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• When you get there, there isn't any there there.

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  Travel, Zen Proverb

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• There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

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  Nouns

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• Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

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  Luxury, Rose, Literature

  "Sacred Emily" (1913). Frequently misquoted as "a rose is a rose is a rose." The allusion is not to a flower but to English painter Francis Rose.

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• In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

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  Morning, Feelings, Evening

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business

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  Business, Simplicity, Important

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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• Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

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  Audacity, Share, Skillful

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• Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

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  Being Yourself, Real, Coffee

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• A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

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  Mind, Important, Novelists

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• You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

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  Limits, Extraordinary, Self Discovery

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.42, Vintage

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• Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Gratitude

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• You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

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  Writing, Thinking, Discovery

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• A diary means yes indeed.

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  Mean, Diaries, Literature

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• Money is always there but the pockets change.

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  Funny, Money, Pockets

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.31, Random House

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• How I wish I were able to say what I think.

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  Thinking, Wish, Speech

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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• Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.

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  Art, Art Is

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• I wish that I was where I am.

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  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Wish

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• 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.

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  Genius, Way, Easy

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• Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

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  Inspirational, Women, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.14, Vintage

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• This joy you feel is life.

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  Joy, Feels

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