Gertrude Stein Quotes
108 Gertrude Stein quotes:
"We are always the same age inside"
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"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is."
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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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"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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"Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone."
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"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
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"A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull."
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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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"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."
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"We are always the same age inside."
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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."
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"It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them."
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"America is my country and Paris is my hometown."
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"The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is."
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"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."
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"Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen."
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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
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"There is no such thing as being good to your wife."
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"Very likely education does not make very much difference."
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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
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