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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein Remarks |
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| A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.1943 Gertrude Stein |
| A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. Gertrude Stein Remarks |
| Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein |
| Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. Gertrude Stein |
| Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein |
| Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything Gertrude Stein |
| Hemingway's remarks are not literature. Gertrude Stein |
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| I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. Gertrude Stein |
| I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods. Gertrude Stein Quotes |
| In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is. Gertrude Stein |
| In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. Gertrude Stein |
| It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business Gertrude Stein |
| It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son Gertrude Stein Adages |
| It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. Gertrude Stein |
| It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. Gertrude Stein Remarks |
| Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble. Gertrude Stein |
| Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls Gertrude Stein Quotes |
| Money is always there but the pockets change 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 Remarks |
| One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. Gertrude Stein Popular Quotes |
| The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. Gertrude Stein |
| The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting Gertrude Stein |
| 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 |
| The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Gertrude Stein |
| The thing that differentiates man from animals is money Gertrude Stein |
| The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in. Gertrude Stein Quotations |
| This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. Gertrude Stein Quotes |
| We are always the same age inside 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.
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| When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. Gertrude Stein Popular Quotes |
| You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived Gertrude Stein |
