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Gertrude Stein Quotes
Gertrude Stein
American
Author
Born:
Feb 3
,
1874
Died:
Jul 27
,
1946
About
Always
Does
Know
Time
You
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
History
About
Soothing
Does
Repeat
Itself
Thing
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
Day
Long
Lose
Sense
Everybody
All Day
Gets
Common
Information
Much
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Gertrude Stein
Happiness
Buy
Shopping
Money
Simply
Know
Said
Go
Where
Whoever
Relatable
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
Gertrude Stein
Funny
You
People
Physics
Strong
Men
Be Strong
Stronger
Action
Supposed
Equal
Reaction
Principle
Scientific
Always
Opposite
Persecute
Get
Cannot
Realise
Them
Themselves
Who
Rouse
Basic
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
Politics
Has-Been
Never
Answer
Been
Any
Gonna
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
Age
Inside
Always
Same
Same Age
It is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude Stein
Love
Alone
Easy
Very
To Love
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
Gertrude Stein
Nothing
Everyone
More
Generally
Doing
Than
Anything
Interesting
Speaking
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
Day
Long
Lose
Sense
Everyone
All Day
Gets
Common
Information
Common Sense
Much
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.
Gertrude Stein
Time
Dark
Long
Long Time
Few
Lasted
Everybody
Back
Dark Ages
Civilization
Take
Does
Very
Very Long Time
Granddaughter
Grandfathers
Us
Ages
Really
Thinks
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein
Bad Luck
Conviction
Luck
Bad
Follows
Any
Boasting
Deepest
Thing
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.
Gertrude Stein
You
Made
Living
Difficult
Extraordinarily
Else
Everything
Out
Finding
Minute
Know
Knows
Up
Anybody
Anybody Else
Really
Thing
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein
Better
Rich
Been
Poor
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
Eyes
Ears
Write
Writer
His
Should
Paint
Painter
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.
Gertrude Stein
Gardening
Garden
Vegetables
Beginning
Nothing
Promising
Vegetable
Looks
After
In The Beginning
Little
Then
Grows
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.
Gertrude Stein
Alone
Others
Like
Human
Want
Human Beings
After
Beings
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
Gertrude Stein
Worse
Bored
Scared
Question
Than
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
Religion
Marriage
Protection
Abundance
Renunciation
End
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Gertrude Stein
Family
You
Extraordinary
About
Forget
Them
Acquainted
Whole
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
Case
Answer
Question
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein
Hope
Religion
Generation
This Generation
Counting
Salvation
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein
You
Better
Walk
Looking
Down
Hill
Up
Walking
While
Ground
Nearer
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.
Gertrude Stein
Always
Deals
How
Foreigner
Friendly
Very
American
Just
Suspicious
Upsets
Them
Who
A diary means yes indeed.
Gertrude Stein
Indeed
Diary
Yes
Means
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
Gertrude Stein
Funny
Man
Son
Father
Men
Drunk
Way
Most
Does
Proudest
Doing
Same
Any
Being
Thing
Things
Two
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein
Friendship
Before
Faded
Flowers
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