Gertrude Stein Quotes

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

Technology, Long, Sense

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

Politics, Answer, Gonna

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

Funny, Men, Strong

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

Art, Eyes, Write

We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein

Age, Same, Inside

But the problem is that 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

Family, Men, Saying

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

Work, Audience, Necessary

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

Dad, Doubt, Depressing

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein

Country, America, Paris

It is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude Stein

Love, Alone, Easy

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

Bored, Question, Scared

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

Nothing, Dangerous

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

Nothing, Everyone, Speaking

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

Family, Forget, Whole

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Gertrude Stein

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

Living, Finding, Agreeing

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

Bad, Luck, Deepest

A diary means yes indeed.
Gertrude Stein

Means, Yes, Indeed

If you can do it then why do it?
Gertrude Stein

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.
Gertrude Stein

Friendly, Suspicious, Deals

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

Sure, Everybody, Knows

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

There is no there there.
Gertrude Stein

Romance is everything.
Gertrude Stein

Romantic, Romance

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
Gertrude Stein

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 3, 1874

Died: July 29, 1946

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