Gertrude Stein Quotes

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

America, Makes, United

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

Business, Important, Awfully

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

Time, Nothing, Around

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
Gertrude Stein

Women, Children, Vote

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
Gertrude Stein

Before, Said, She

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

Sex, Creative, Literature

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

Men, Pearls, Artificial

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

Money, Change, After

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

Different, Older, Pleasure

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Gertrude Stein

Care, Long, Once

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
Gertrude Stein

Nothing, Earth, Anyway

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

Science, Century, Believed

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.
Gertrude Stein

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Gertrude Stein

History, Lesson, Repetition

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

Love, Music, Passion

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein

Question, Answer, Case

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

Country, Same, House

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein

Unhappy, Childhood, Communists

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

Religion, Hope, Generation

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

Time, Long, Dark

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
Gertrude Stein

Literature, Hemingway, Remarks

History takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude Stein

Time, History, Makes

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

Human, Reality, Two

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

Great, Mouth, Writers

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Gertrude Stein

Patience, Patient, Declared

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 3, 1874

Died: July 29, 1946

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