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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. Gertrude Stein

Happiness, Money, Shopping, Know, Said

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, Common Sense

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, Be Strong, Strong, Men, Action

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

Walk, Walking, Looking, Better, Down, Up

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, Nothing

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

Gratitude, Silent, Much, Very, Anyone

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

History, Repetition, Lesson, Teaches

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

Animal, Vote, Rest, Sometimes, Always

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

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

It is very easy to love alone. - Gertrude Stein

It is very easy to love alone. Gertrude Stein

Love, Alone, Easy, To Love, Very

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There is no there there. Gertrude Stein

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

Never, Masterpiece, Dull, May, Unwelcome

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, Peasant, Anyway

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

Great, Mouth, Always, Portraits, Noticed

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

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

Living, Finding, You, Anything, Really

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

America, Paris, Hometown, Country

Remarks are not literature. Gertrude Stein

Literature, Remarks

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go. Gertrude Stein

Funny, People, Direction, Know, Want, Go

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?' Gertrude Stein

Family, Men, Saying, Speak, Problem, Up

A diary means yes indeed. Gertrude Stein

Yes, Diary, Means, Indeed

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, Write, Writer, Painter

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

Beginning, End, You, Difference, Thirty

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

Luck, Bad, Bad Luck, Deepest, Conviction

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. Gertrude Stein

Time, They Say, Say, Everyone, Lived

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. Gertrude Stein

Poetry, Dictionary, Things, Seen

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