Gertrude Stein Quotes

• She said he was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

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• Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.

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• You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

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

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• What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

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• Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere because they think of everybody else as native.

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• Disillusionment in living is the finding out nobody agrees with you . . . Complete disillusionment is when you realise that no one can for they can’t change.

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• Pigeons on the grass alas.

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• He had added to his stories a little story of meditations and in these he said that The Enormous Room was the greatest book he had ever read. It was then that Gertrude Stein said, Hemingway, remarks are not literature.

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• You are all a lost generation.

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• You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

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• The artist works by locating the world in himself.

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

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• Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

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• It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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• Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

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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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• In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

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• I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

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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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Gertrude Stein (116)

Birth:	3rd February, 1874
Death:	27th July, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Writer

About

Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an American novelist, poet, writer, and art collector. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures in modernism in literature and art would meet, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse. She wrote several books include: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Tender Buttons, Three Lives, The Making of Americans(novel), Paris France, The World is Round, How to Write, Ida: A Novel, Wars I Have seen, Portraits and prayers, Blood on the dining-room floor(novel), Lifting Belly(poem), and Mrs. Reynolds.

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