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Gertrude Stein
American
Author
Born:
Feb 3
,
1874
Died:
Jul 27
,
1946
About
Always
Does
Know
Time
You
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Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein
Men
Girl
Artificial
Swine
Pearls
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Gertrude Stein
Creative
Sex
Unconcerned
Literature
Inconceivable
I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
Gertrude Stein
Important
Think
Everything
Know
Am
Reason
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
Great
Closed
Mouth
Writers
Firmly
Always
Really
Noticed
Portraits
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.
Gertrude Stein
War
Time
Confidence
Peace
Country
Everybody
About
Only
Only Country
Knows
Always
Times
Just
Switzerland
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.
Gertrude Stein
Change
Money
Say
About
Pockets
Always
Same
After
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Gertrude Stein
Man
Money
Animals
Thing
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
Gertrude Stein
Write
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein
Fragrance
France
Must
Oneself
Adapt
Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
Gertrude Stein
Remarks
Literature
Hemingway
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
Me
Listen
Them
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.
Gertrude Stein
Art
Generation
People
Enough
Contemporary
Make
Accept
Difference
Literature
Which
Thing
Reject
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein
People
Unhappy
Had
Childhood
Fancied
Communists
Who
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
Gertrude Stein
Life
Reality
More
Real
Any
Really
Imagined
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Gertrude Stein
Myself
Me
Care
Long
Once
Picasso
Does
Influence
Who
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Gertrude Stein
Wish
Must
Miser
Occupying
Were
Oh
Being
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein
You
Woman
Important
Thinking
Once
Once More
About
More
Remind
Does
Climb
Literary
Epoch
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude Stein
You
Living
Finding
No-One
Anything
Disillusionment
Really
Agreeing
Ever
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
Gertrude Stein
Daily
Pleasant
Pleasant Things
Those
Miracle
Write
Come
Does
Us
Paint
Who
Things
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
Gertrude Stein
You
Remember
Think
Everybody
Alike
Bore
Knew
Name
Any
Then
Who
Ever
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
Gertrude Stein
Reality
Telling
About
Human
Human Beings
Interested
Beings
Things
Two
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
Gertrude Stein
You
Important
Gave
France
Take
Did
There is no such thing as being good to your wife.
Gertrude Stein
Good
Wife
Being
Your
Thing
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein
Failure
Excuse
Does
Real
End
Itself
Need
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Gertrude Stein
Patience
Patient
Too
More
Never
Am
Than
Who
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.
Gertrude Stein
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Logic
Hopes
Cosmic
Had
Ideals
Terms
Discoveries
Lacking
Century
Aspirations
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