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

Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume. — Gertrude Stein

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. — Gertrude Stein

Wake a question. Eat an instant, answer — Gertrude Stein

This is the place of places and and it is here. — Gertrude Stein

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

One must dare to be happy. — Gertrude Stein

The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything. — Gertrude Stein

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical
and they are easily flattered. — Gertrude Stein

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone. — Gertrude Stein

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

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

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. — Gertrude Stein

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

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

The way to resume is to resume.
If we knew everything ahead of time, all would be dictation not creation. — Gertrude Stein

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. — 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

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable. — Gertrude Stein

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

The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume. — 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

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful. — Gertrude Stein

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar. — Gertrude Stein

Very likely education does not make very much difference. — Gertrude Stein

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

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

I wish that I was where I am. — Gertrude Stein

It was a strange winter and nothing and everything happened. — 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

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. — Gertrude Stein

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

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

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. — Gertrude Stein

The composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented. — Gertrude Stein

...I have gone on beginning... — Gertrude Stein

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. — Gertrude Stein

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. — Gertrude Stein

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it ... — Gertrude Stein

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth ... — Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding ... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve. — Wyndham Lewis

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything. — Gertrude Stein

A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint. — Gertrude Stein

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet — Gertrude Stein

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. — Gertrude Stein

That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation. — Gertrude Stein

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock. — Gertrude Stein

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient. — Gertrude Stein

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

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

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

Suppose no one asked a question.
What would the answer be? — Gertrude Stein

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

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

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

Remarks are not literature. — Gertrude Stein

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is. — Gertrude Stein

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. — Gertrude Stein

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

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know. — Gertrude Stein

I am I because my little dog knows me. - GERTRUDE STEIN — Alexandra Horowitz

It is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding. — 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

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

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

Art isn't everything. It's just about everything. — Gertrude Stein

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. — Gertrude Stein

What happened to-day, a narrative — Gertrude Stein

Every man is the maker of his own fortune — 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

There are a lot of other things besides nouns. — 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

Near a war is always not very near. — Gertrude Stein

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

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book. — Gertrude Stein

There is no there there. — 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