Gertrude Stein Quotes

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  You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

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  Looks, Might, Ridiculous

  Gertrude Stein (2015). “Three Lives”, Xist Publishing

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• Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

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  Morning, Joy, Miracle

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  Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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  Inspirational, Knowledge, Technology

  1959 'Reflection on the Atomic Bomb', collected in Robert A Goodwin (ed) Readings in World Politics (1959).

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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.

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  Inspirational, Political, Nerd

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• Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Let me listen to me and not to them.

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  Self Esteem, Healing, Let Me

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.574, Northwestern University Press

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• We are always the same age inside.

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  Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

  "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

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• It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business

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  Business, Simplicity, Important

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1932-1946”

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• There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

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  Differences, Twenties, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

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  Audacity, Share, Skillful

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• You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

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  Limits, Extraordinary, Self Discovery

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.42, Vintage

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• Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

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  Being Yourself, Real, Coffee

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• In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

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  Morning, Feelings, Evening

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• Too few is as many as too many.

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  Enough

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.110, Vintage

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• You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

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  Writing, Thinking, Discovery

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• Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.

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  Art, Art Is

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• She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

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  Interesting, Abnormal, Complicated

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (Modern Classics Series): Glance at the Parisian early 20th century avant-garde (One of the greatest nonfiction books of the 20th century)”, p.70, e-artnow

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• A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

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  Mind, Important, Novelists

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• 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.

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  Funny, Strong, Men

  Gertrude Stein (1945). “Wars I Have Seen”, New York : Random House

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• Suppose no one asked a question.
  What would the answer be?

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  Answers

  "Near East or Chicago A Description". "Useful Knowledge". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1928.

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• Nothing has happened today except kindness.

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  Kindness, Today, Happened

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• The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.

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  Way, Resumes

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• Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

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  Unhappy Childhood, People, Literature

  Quoted by Thornton Wilder in December 14-15, 1956, interview with Richard Goldstone. "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", 1958.

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• One must dare to be happy.

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  Dare

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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.

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  Answers, Said, Cases

  Reported in Donald Sutherland, Gertrude Stein: A Biography of Her Work (1951). Stein's companion Alice B. Toklas, who was with her at her death, reported Stein's words as, "What is the answer? ... In that case... what is the question?" (Alice B. Toklas, What Is Remembered [1963]), and did not identify these specifically as the last words.

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