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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 logical
and 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

There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War. — 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

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

Gertrude, behind her, again had just one ... That one little feather she had as a starter. But now that's enough, because now she is smarter. — Dr. Seuss

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

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man. — 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

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

So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens? — Gertrude Berg

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything. — Gertrude Stein

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. — 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

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. — Gertrude Stein

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

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. — Gertrude Stein

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

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. — 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

Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult). — John Scalzi

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

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. — Gertrude Stein

A masterpiece ... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. — Gertrude Stein

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich. — 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

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population. — Gertrude Stein