Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
By Gertrude Stein
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
By Gertrude Stein
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
By Gertrude Stein
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
By Gertrude Stein
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.
By Gertrude Stein
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
By Gertrude Stein
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
By Gertrude Stein
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.
By Gertrude Stein
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
By Gertrude Stein
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
By Gertrude Stein
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
By Gertrude Stein
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
By Gertrude Stein
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
By Gertrude Stein
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
By Gertrude Stein
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
By Gertrude Stein
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
By Gertrude Stein
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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.
By Gertrude Stein
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.
By Gertrude Stein