Gertrude Stein Quotes - BrainyQuote

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

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

You Walk Looking Hill

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

History Repeat About Thing Itself

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 People You Men

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

Happiness Money Shopping Know

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

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

Day Long Lose Information

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Hometown Paris Country America

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

Man Money Animals Thing

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry Things Seen Dictionary

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Art People Enough Literature

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

Bored Question Than Worse

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.

You Know Difficult Finding

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Friendship Flowers Faded Before

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 Job Lie Down

History takes time. History makes memory.

History Time Memory Makes

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

Fragrance Adapt France Oneself

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.

Time Long Long Time Dark

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.

Father Funny Son Man

There is no there there.

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.

World Nothing Earth Would

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

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

Day Technology Long Lose Information

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

Never Masterpiece May Dull

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

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

Luck Bad Bad Luck Deepest

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

History Lesson Repetition Teaches

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