Gertrude Stein Quotes - 9quotes.com

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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.
Written by Gertrude Stein
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Written by Gertrude Stein
Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
Written by Gertrude Stein
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Written by Gertrude Stein
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Written by Gertrude Stein
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Written by Gertrude Stein
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Written by Gertrude Stein
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Written by Gertrude Stein
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
Written by Gertrude Stein
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Written by Gertrude Stein
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Written by Gertrude Stein
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Written by Gertrude Stein
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Written by Gertrude Stein
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Written by Gertrude Stein
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Written by Gertrude Stein
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Written by Gertrude Stein
We are always the same age inside.
Written by Gertrude Stein
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Written by Gertrude Stein
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Written by Gertrude Stein
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Written by Gertrude Stein
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Written by Gertrude Stein
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
Written by Gertrude Stein
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Written by Gertrude Stein
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Written by Gertrude Stein
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Written by Gertrude Stein
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Written by Gertrude Stein
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Written by Gertrude Stein
A diary means yes indeed.
Written by Gertrude Stein
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Written by Gertrude Stein
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Written by Gertrude Stein

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