Gertrude Quotes
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
— Gertrude Stein
The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
— Gertrude Atherton
This is the place of places and and it is here.
— Gertrude Stein
I was happiest between the waves.
— Gertrude Ederle
You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.
— Jonah Winter
The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
— Gertrude Stein
The boat was coming in. Suddenly the boat stopped and turned around and went out to sea again. "Well, well," thought Benny. "Whoever he is, he
— Gertrude Chandler Warner
College professors have two bad traits. They are logicaland they are easily flattered. — Gertrude Stein
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
— Gertrude Jekyll
There's another surprise!" Sam said. "I've seen your Mystery Man!
— Gertrude Chandler Warner
Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
— Gertrude Atherton
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
— Gertrude Stein
If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
— Gertrude Atherton
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
— Gertrude Stein
A diary means yes indeed.
— Gertrude Stein
It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.
— Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.
— Edward Hirsch
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
— Gertrude Stein
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
— Gertrude Stein
The first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.
— Gertrude Diamant
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.
— Gertrude Stein
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
— Ernest Hemingway,
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
— Gertrude Stein
One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
— Gertrude Stein
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
— Gertrude Stein
What is the answer? [ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ]
In that case, what is the question? — Gertrude Stein
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
— Gertrude Stein
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
— Gertrude Stein
When I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying,
How can I combine career and family? — Gertrude Stein
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
— Gertrude Stein
Nothing in life is more corroding than habit.
— Gertrude Atherton
Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
— Gertrude Stein
The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.
— Gertrude Atherton
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
— Gertrude Stein
The doctors told me my hearing would get worse if I continued swimming, but I loved the water so much, I just couldn't stop.
— Gertrude Ederle
What happened to-day, a narrative
— Gertrude Stein
A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?
— Gertrude Atherton
Every man is the maker of his own fortune
— Gertrude Stein
Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
— Gertrude Stein
August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.
— Gertrude Stein
You have to know what you want to get it.
— Gertrude Stein
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
— Gertrude Stein
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
— Gertrude Stein
Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
— Gertrude Stein
I will have no locked cupboards in my life.
— Gertrude Bell
The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
— Gertrude Stein
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
— Gertrude Stein
A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create.
— Meia Geddes
It was a strange winter and nothing and everything happened.
— Gertrude Stein
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
— Gertrude Stein
Success is a great healer.
— Gertrude Atherton
It is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.
— Gertrude Stein
I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
— Gertrude Stein
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
— Gertrude Stein
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
— Gertrude Stein
The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
— Gertrude Atherton
Don't weep for me; don't write any sob stories.
— Gertrude Ederle
I am I because my little dog knows me. - GERTRUDE STEIN
— Alexandra Horowitz
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
— Gertrude Stein
If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.
— Gertrude Atherton
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
— Gertrude Jekyll
Start over again. Concentrate." [to a young Ernest Hemingway]
— Gertrude Stein
I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
— Gertrude Stein
No loose fish enters our quiet bay.
— Gertrude Atherton
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
— Gertrude Stein
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
I am I because my little dog knows me.
— Gertrude Stein
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
— Gertrude Stein
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
— Gertrude Stein
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be? — Gertrude Stein
People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.
— Gertrude Ederle
What good are roots if you can't take them with you
— Gertrude Stein
Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
— Gertrude Atherton
Stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
— Gertrude Atherton
Remarks are not literature.
— Gertrude Stein
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
— Gertrude Stein
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
— Gertrude Atherton
It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.
— Gertrude Bell
There is no there there.
— Gertrude Stein
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
Near a war is always not very near.
— Gertrude Stein
On they went, past the hen houses. These were all mended and painted. They went through a field to the street. It was very strange
— Gertrude Chandler Warner
A masterpiece ... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
— Gertrude Stein
When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.
— Gertrude Stein
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
— Gertrude Stein
