Gertrude Stein Quotes - Page 5

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• The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Made, Minutes, Difficult

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.101, Vintage

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• A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

  Gertrude Stein

  Circles, Rapture, Deals

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.141, Taylor & Francis

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• Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

  Gertrude Stein

  Self Control, Way, Said

  Gertrude Stein (2004). “Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945”, Peter Owen Publishers

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• Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.

  Gertrude Stein

  Girl, Three

  Quoted in James R. Mellow, Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company (1974)

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• The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one
  forget eternity and the fear of death.

  Gertrude Stein

  Ideas, Enemy, Awful

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.42, Random House

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• There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Differences, Twenties, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns
  it and spends it every day in order to live knows
  that money is money, anybody who votes it to be
  gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That
  is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn
  money and spend money every day anybody can know the
  difference between a million and three. But when you
  vote money away there really is not any difference
  between a million and three.

  Gertrude Stein

  Money, Crazy, Order

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• Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.

  Gertrude Stein

  Evil, Giving, Too Much

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.92, Random House

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• Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing
  with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring
  with replacing the noun. It is doing that always
  doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that.
  Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and
  pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is
  what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no
  matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a
  great many kinds of poetry.

  Gertrude Stein

  Poetry, Doe, Nouns

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”

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• She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Interesting, Abnormal, Complicated

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (Modern Classics Series): Glance at the Parisian early 20th century avant-garde (One of the greatest nonfiction books of the 20th century)”, p.70, e-artnow

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• The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

  Gertrude Stein

  Animal, Men, Literature

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

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• Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

  Gertrude Stein

  Thinking, Names, Remember

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• It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

  Gertrude Stein

  History, Doe, Soothing

  "Wars I Have Seen". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1945.

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• Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

  Gertrude Stein

  Interesting, Literature, Doing Nothing

  "The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation".

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• As there was never any question there was never any answer.

  Gertrude Stein

  Answers

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.33, Vintage

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• One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

  Gertrude Stein

  Believe, World, Opinion

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

  Gertrude Stein

  Aquarius, Answers, Literature

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

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• I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.

  Gertrude Stein

  Couple, Two, Married

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.75, Taylor & Francis

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• Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dark, Thinking, Civilization

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.102, Vintage

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• In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

  Gertrude Stein

  France, Literature, Fragrance

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• Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

  Gertrude Stein

  Opposites, Literature, Action

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.441, Northwestern University Press

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• There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Passion, Important

  Gertrude Stein, Brenda Wineapple (2002). “Three Lives”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• College professors have two bad traits. They are logical
  and they are easily flattered.

  Gertrude Stein

  College, Two, Academia

  Gertrude Stein (1955). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Painted lace, and other pieces, 1914-1937”

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• there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

  Gertrude Stein

  Fashion, Two Sides, People

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6152, Delphi Classics

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• [On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

  Gertrude Stein

  Village, Pounds, Excellent

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)

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