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• The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one
  forget eternity and the fear of death.

  Gertrude Stein

  Ideas, Enemy, Awful

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.42, Random House

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• Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

  Gertrude Stein

  Thinking, Names, Remember

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• There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.

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  Ends, Beginnings And Endings

  Gertrude Stein, Judy Grahn (1989). “Really reading Gertrude Stein: a selected anthology with essays by Judy Grahn”, Crossing Pr

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

  Gertrude Stein

  Way, Resumes

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• The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

  Gertrude Stein

  Animal, Men, Literature

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

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• Nothing has happened today except kindness.

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  Kindness, Today, Happened

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• I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

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  Teacher, Literature, Pupils

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

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  Believe, World, Opinion

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

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  Opposites, Literature, Action

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.441, Northwestern University Press

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• College professors have two bad traits. They are logical
  and they are easily flattered.

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  College, Two, Academia

  Gertrude Stein (1955). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Painted lace, and other pieces, 1914-1937”

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• There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

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  Country, Passion, Important

  Gertrude Stein, Brenda Wineapple (2002). “Three Lives”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

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  Circles, Rapture, Deals

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.141, Taylor & Francis

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• When you get there, there isn't any there there.

  Gertrude Stein

  Travel, Zen Proverb

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• [On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

  Gertrude Stein

  Village, Pounds, Excellent

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)

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• Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing
  enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know
  you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.

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  Mean, Knowing, Understanding

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.5415, Delphi Classics

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• Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

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  Interesting, Literature, Doing Nothing

  "The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation".

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• One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

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  Women, Talking, People

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.41, Vintage

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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.

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  Dark, Thinking, Civilization

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.102, Vintage

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• You attract what you need like a lover

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  Needs, Lovers

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• No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

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  Art, Creating, Long

  "Composition as Explanation". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1926.

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• there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

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  Fashion, Two Sides, People

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6152, Delphi Classics

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• In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

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  France, Literature, Fragrance

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• I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...

  Gertrude Stein

  Done, Ifs

  "How to Write".

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• To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing

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• It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

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  Self Esteem, Needs, Lovers

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