All Gertrude Stein Quotes
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
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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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.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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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.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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