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Gertrude Stein Quotes

Gertrude Stein quotes

American Author February 3, 1874 – July 29, 1946

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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles. Gertrude Stein
Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country."
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "It is very easy to love alone."
It is very easy to love alone. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "I love my love with a b because she is peculiar."
I love my love with a b because she is peculiar. Gertrude Stein
The one thing that everybody wants is to be free...not to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free, the word discipline, and forbidden and investigated and imprisoned brings horror and fear into all hearts, they do not want to be afraid not more than is necessary in the ordinary business of living where one has to earn one's living and has to fear want and disease and death....The only thing that... Gertrude Stein
She says it is a good thing to have no sense of how it is done in the things that amuse you. You should have one absorbing occupation and as for the other things in life for full enjoyment you should only contemplate results. In this way you are bound to feel more about it than those who know a little of how it is done. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more."
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made..."
I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made what I made. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not..."
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "One must dare to be happy."
One must dare to be happy. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream..."
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. Gertrude Stein
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. Gertrude Stein
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. Gertrude Stein

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