Gertrude Stein Quotes - Page 2

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• It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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  Time, Women, Philosophical

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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• Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

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  Pleasure, Should, Sequence

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• Let me listen to me and not to them.

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  Self Esteem, Healing, Let Me

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.574, Northwestern University Press

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• To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing

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• You attract what you need like a lover

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  Needs, Lovers

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• Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

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  Inspiring, Fear, Scary

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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• Nothing has happened today except kindness.

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  Kindness, Today, Happened

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• The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

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  Art, Matter, Function

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• Suppose no one asked a question.
  What would the answer be?

  Gertrude Stein

  Answers

  "Near East or Chicago A Description". "Useful Knowledge". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1928.

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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.

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  Funny, Strong, Men

  Gertrude Stein (1945). “Wars I Have Seen”, New York : Random House

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• One must dare to be happy.

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  Dare

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• Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing
  enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know
  you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.

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  Mean, Knowing, Understanding

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.5415, Delphi Classics

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• You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

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  Mud Puddles, Losing, Moral

  Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings (1971) "Q.E.D." (1903) bk. 1

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• Too few is as many as too many.

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  Enough

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.110, Vintage

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• How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.

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  Asks

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

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• 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.

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  Real, Believe, Scientific Method

  "Paris France". Book by Gertrude Stein, p. 8 (in 1970 edition), 1940.

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• There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

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  Success, Winning, Men

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.277, Vintage

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• The artist works by locating the world in himself

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  Artist, World

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• You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.

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  Inspirational, Track, Vision

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• If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

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  Use, Way, Language

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• In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

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  Thinking, Government, America

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• Forget grammar and think about potatoes

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  Thinking, Potatoes, Forget

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “How to Write”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

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  Communication, Writing, Fighting

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• You have to know what you want to get it.

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  Inspirational, Goal, Want

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• There is no there there.

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  Everybody's Autobiography ch. 4 (1937)

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