Gertrude Stein Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

  Gertrude Stein

  Reality, Two, Literature

  Afterword to an edition on "What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them", as quoted by Robert Haas in a January 1946 interview,

• The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

  Gertrude Stein

  Reality, America, Doe

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

• There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Reality, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.54, Random House

• A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Doe, Needs

  "Four in America". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1947.

• War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dream, Real, War

• ... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Different, Use

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.52, Random House

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