Gertrude Stein Quotes - Page 13

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• I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

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  Taken, People, Income

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.57, Random House

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Giving, Waiting

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.279, Delphi Classics

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• You never answer a question nobody does.

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  Doe, Answers

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.178, Random House

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• 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.

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  Dog, Stars, Men

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.128, Vintage

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• I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.

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  Family, Doubt, Shadow

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.148, Random House

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• Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.

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  Use, Done

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6065, Delphi Classics

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• We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

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  Jobs, Men, Two

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• More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

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  Marketing, Great American, Buyers

  Everybody's Autobiography ch. 2 (1937)

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• I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

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  Writing, Stranger, Dear

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• Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

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  Once Upon A Time, Goes On, World

  Gertrude Stein, Clement Hurd, Thacher Hurd (2013). “The World Is Round”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• . . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

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  Animal, Equality, Men

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.46, Vintage

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• I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

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  Doe, Contempt, Familiarity

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• Very likely education does not make very much difference.

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  Education, Differences, Doe

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

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  Thinking, Important, Reason

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “How to Write”, p.169, Courier Corporation

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• It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

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  Sadness, Friendly, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6132, Delphi Classics

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• To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

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  Likes, Life Is, Frightened

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.316, Univ of California Press

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• Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

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  Wish, Literature, Misery

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• I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

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  Class, People, Serenity

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

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  Art, Pulse, Characteristics

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6132, Delphi Classics

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• In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

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  Space, America, United States

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.39, Random House

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• What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

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  Country, Passion, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (1955). “Painted lace: and other pieces, 1914-1937”

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• A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is
  not waking thoughts although it is written and thought
  with waking thoughts. But really a novel goes as
  dreams go in sleeping at night and some dreams are like
  anything and some dreams are like something and some
  dreams change and some dreams are quiet and some dreams
  are not. And some dreams are just what any one would
  do only a little different always just a little
  different and that is what a novel is.

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  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

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  Nature, Events, Century

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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.

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  Marriage, Literature, Stones

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.74, Taylor & Francis

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• I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

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  Gertrude, Ifs

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