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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, Information

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

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. 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

Gardening, Beginning, Garden

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

Question, Answer, Case

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. Gertrude Stein

Living, Know, You

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

Never, Masterpiece, May

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

Gratitude, Silent, Much

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

History, Repetition, Lesson

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

Creative, Literature, Sex

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

Teacher, Possible, Find

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

Love, Music, Passion

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

Walking, Walk, Better

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

Forget, Way, Population

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. Gertrude Stein

Daily, Paint, Miracle

Action and reaction are equal and opposite. Gertrude Stein

Action, Equal, Reaction

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. Gertrude Stein

Nature, Interesting, More

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody. Gertrude Stein

Peace, Time, War

There is no there there. Gertrude Stein

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

Know, You, Tell

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. Gertrude Stein

Art, Eyes, Paint

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, Dark, Long

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

America, Paris, Country

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

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, Want, Human

We are always the same age inside. Gertrude Stein

Age, Same, Inside

A diary means yes indeed. Gertrude Stein

Yes, Diary, Indeed

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