103 Gertrude Stein Quotes - Inspirational Quotes at BrainyQuote

American - Author February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946 See also: Quotes about Gertrude Stein

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. - Gertrude Stein

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Happiness Money Shopping Know

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

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

Technology Long Day Lose

We are always the same age inside. - Gertrude Stein

We are always the same age inside.

Age Always Same Inside

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

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

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

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

Politics Never Answer Been

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

Everything Nothing Dangerous How

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. - Gertrude Stein

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Gratitude Silent Much Use

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Country America Hometown Paris

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

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

Answer Question Case

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 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.

Change Money Always About

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

You Better Walk Hill

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

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

Eyes Art Should Paint

It is very easy to love alone. - Gertrude Stein

It is very easy to love alone.

Love Alone Easy Very

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

Space America More Nobody

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.

Gardening Nothing Beginning Garden

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

Business Your Important Know

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. - Gertrude Stein

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

History About Repeat Thing

A diary means yes indeed.

Diary Indeed Means Yes

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

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

You Family Forget About

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

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Man Money Animals Thing

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

Luck Bad Bad Luck Conviction

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

View Like Back Sit

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

You Time Nothing Genius

History takes time. History makes memory.

History Time Memory Makes

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.

Alone Like Human Want

Romance is everything. - Gertrude Stein

Romance is everything.

Everything Romantic Romance

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Literature Remarks Hemingway

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Friendship Flowers Before Faded

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.

You Die Lie Never

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.

Always Who Just Friendly

There is no there there.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

History Repetition Lesson Teaches

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

Men Pearls Artificial Swine

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

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.

Vote Rest Always Sometimes

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

Long Day Lose Information

Let me listen to me and not to them.

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

Failure End Real Need

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.

Funny You People Men

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

You Thinking Woman More

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