All Gertrude Stein Quotes
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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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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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.
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
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A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
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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.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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