Gertrude Stein Short Quotes

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Remarks are not literature [said to Hemingway].

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Of Oakland, California:
There is no there there.

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Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.

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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket
It means wealth.

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A master-piece … may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

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I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

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Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer.

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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

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As there was never any question there was never any answer.

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Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

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Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

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To know to know to love her so.
Four saints prepare for saints.

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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

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Think of the Bible and Homer think of Shakespeare and think of me.

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August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

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It is natural to suppose that a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

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It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

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If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

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