Gertrude Stein quotes - page 7

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic. (Gertrude Stein)
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
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Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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You are all a lost generation.
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I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing.
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Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock. (Gertrude Stein)
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
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Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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There is no such thing as being good to your wife.
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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
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Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
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What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. (Gertrude Stein)
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
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Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous.
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What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
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