Gertrude Stein quotes - page 3

Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer. (Gertrude Stein)
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume. View quote
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. View quote
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As there was never any question there was never any answer. View quote
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It is very easy to love alone. View quote
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The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting. View quote
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If you can do it then why do it? View quote
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The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe. View quote
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But the problem is that 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?' View quote
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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. View quote
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Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realising everything and every one comes out of them in repeating. More and more then every one comes to be clear to some one. (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. View quote
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After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there. View quote
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One must dare to be happy. View quote
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone. View quote
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said. View quote
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity. View quote
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living. View quote
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A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style. View quote
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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. View quote
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers. (Gertrude Stein)
Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody. View quote
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Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today. View quote
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It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away. View quote
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All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra. View quote
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