Gertrude Stein Quotes - Page 12

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• It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.

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  Men, People, Pay

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• A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

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  War, Nice, Hero

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.89, Random House

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• Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

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  Supposing That, Strings, Beans

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• Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

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  Determination, Doors, Spoons

  Gertrude Stein (1997). “Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

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  Thinking, Hiking, Important

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.166, Random House

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• If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

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  Ocean, Fishing, Desire

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• It is funny about money. And it is funny about identity. You are you because your little dog knows you, but when your public knows you and does not want to pay for you and when your public knows you and does want to pay for you, you are not the same you.

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  Dog, Identity, Doe

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.50, Vintage

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• Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

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  Water, Meadows, Difficult

  Gertrude Stein (2015). “Tender Buttons”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

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  Museums, Walks, Walking

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• Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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  Religion, Literature, This Generation

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.133, Vintage

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• One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

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  Loss, Said, Heard

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.310, Univ of California Press

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• ... 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.

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  Real, Different, Use

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

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• 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.

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  Dream, Real, War

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• Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

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  Father, Men, Angry Man

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.32, Northwestern University Press

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• Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.

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  Success, Answers, Results

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1957). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Alphabets and birthdays”

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• Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being
  and their feeling and their way of realising everything
  and every one comes out of them in repeating. More
  and more then every one comes to be clear to some one.

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  Feelings, Speech, Way

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (Modern Classics Series): A History of a Family's Progress”, p.333, e-artnow

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• The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

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  War, Crazy, People

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.117, Random House

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• If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

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  Writing, Years, Half

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.76, Vintage

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• I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

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  Thinking, Important, Reason

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “How to Write”, p.169, Courier Corporation

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• I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.

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  Family, Doubt, Shadow

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.148, Random House

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• From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

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  Progress, Age, Would Be

  Written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College. Published as "Form and Intelligibility" in the Radcliffe Manuscripts, 1949.

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• Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

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  Nuisance, Sometimes, Forget

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.787, e-artnow

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• there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.

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  Thinking, Giving, Waiting

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.279, Delphi Classics

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• Two things are always the same the dance and war.

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  War, Two, Two Things

  1937 Everybody's Autobiography, ch.5.

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• I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

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  Taken, People, Income

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.57, Random House

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