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

Gertrude Stein Quotes

American - Author February 3, 1874 - July 29, 1946

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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. Gertrude Stein

Technology, Day, Long

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

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

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

Gratitude, Silent, Very

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

Walking, Looking, Walk

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

Men, Pearls, Artificial

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, Strong, Men

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, Never, Answer

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

Gardening, Beginning, Garden

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

History, Repetition, Lesson

There is no there there. Gertrude Stein

Action and reaction are equal and opposite. Gertrude Stein

Action, Equal, Reaction

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air. Gertrude Stein

Sculpture, Two, Air

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

World, Earth, Nothing

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

Finding, You, Living

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

Money, Man, Animals

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

Work, Audience, Never

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, Father, Son

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

Question, Scared, Bored

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

Help, Me, Argument

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

Failure, End, Real

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

America, Country, 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? Gertrude Stein

Question, Answer, Case

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

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

You, Something, Being

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

View, Back, Like

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

Teacher, Find, Pupil

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