Gertrude Stein quotes

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. (Gertrude Stein)
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein)
We are always the same age inside.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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What is the answer?" [ I was silent ] "In that case, what is the question?
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
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Hemingway's remarks are not literature. (Gertrude Stein)
Let me listen to me and not them.
Gertrude Stein
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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