Gertrude Stein Quotes

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

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  Audacity, Share, Skillful

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

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  Dying, Death And Dying, Dies

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.147, 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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• One must dare to be happy.

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  Dare

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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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• There is no there there.

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  Everybody's Autobiography ch. 4 (1937)

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• I wish that I was where I am.

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  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Wish

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• There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

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  Success, Winning, Men

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.277, Vintage

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• The artist works by locating the world in himself

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  Artist, World

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• If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

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  Communication, Writing, Fighting

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