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Gertrude Stein Quotes About Time

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

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

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

History takes time. History makes memory.

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.

Gertrude Stein Quotes About Writing

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

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

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

More Quotes by Gertrude Stein

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

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

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

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

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

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

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

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

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

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

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

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

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

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

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.

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

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

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

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

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