All Gertrude Stein Quotes
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein
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I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
Gertrude Stein
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
Gertrude Stein
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein in
Science
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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
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Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
Gertrude Stein
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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein
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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
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein in
History
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein
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What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
Gertrude Stein
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