Gertrude Stein quotes

Gertrude Stein was an American writer, art collector, and influential figure in the Parisian avant-garde. Her salon became a center for leading artists and writers of the early twentieth century. She played a crucial role in the development of modern literature and art. Here are 228 of her quotes:

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. (Gertrude Stein)
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. View quote
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Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. View quote
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question. View quote
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. View quote
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. View quote
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important. View quote
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. View quote
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. View quote
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. View quote
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein)
We are always the same age inside. View quote
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. View quote
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. View quote
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. View quote
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. View quote
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know. View quote
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What is the answer?" [ I was silent ] "In that case, what is the question? View quote
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business. View quote
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I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. View quote
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Hemingway's remarks are not literature. (Gertrude Stein)
Let me listen to me and not them. View quote
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Gertrude Stein

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Occupation: American Author
Born: February 3, 1874
Died: July 27, 1946
Quotes count: 228
Wikipedia: Gertrude Stein

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