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Gertrude Stein Quotes

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American Author February 3, 1874 – July 29, 1946

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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
When I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family? Gertrude Stein
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. Gertrude Stein
I always say that you cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it every day and you cannot tell what a book is until you type it or proof-read it. It then does something to you that only reading it never can do. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They..."
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit..."
If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me. Gertrude Stein
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come. Gertrude Stein
After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said. Gertrude Stein
She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting. Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein quote: "So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use."
So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use. Gertrude Stein

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