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