Gertrude Stein Quotes

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein

Gratitude, Silent, Anyone

There is no there there.
Gertrude Stein

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

Dad, Doubt, Depressing

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude Stein

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Gertrude Stein

Nothing, After, Beginning

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
Gertrude Stein

Sometimes, Vote, Rest

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

Funny, Men, Drunk

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude Stein

Alone, Human, After

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

Teacher, Find, Possible

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein

Friendship, Before, Flowers

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

Sadness, Friendly, Though

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

Remember, Everybody, Knew

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
Gertrude Stein

End, Everything, Between

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
Gertrude Stein

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Gertrude Stein

May, Dull, Unwelcome

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

Failure, End, Real

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Gertrude Stein

Help, Cannot, Believing

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

Forget, Population, Propaganda

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

Family, Dream, Destroy

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

Long, Sense, Everyone

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

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

Time, Believing, Rarely

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
Gertrude Stein

Important, Everything, Reason

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

Down, While, Looking

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 3, 1874

Died: July 29, 1946

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