Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

"Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family."
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"Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family."
Gertrude Stein
"It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them."
Gertrude Stein
"What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country."
Gertrude Stein
"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."
Gertrude Stein
"I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher."
Gertrude Stein
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not."
Gertrude Stein
"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."
Gertrude Stein
"I write for myself and strangers. The strangers dear Readers are an afterthought."
Gertrude Stein
"If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous."
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
"I am because my little dog knows me."
Gertrude Stein
"Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said."
Gertrude Stein
"We are always the same age inside."
Gertrude Stein
"I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober."
Gertrude Stein
"Let me listen to me and not to them."
Gertrude Stein
"A rose is a rose is a rose."
Gertrude Stein
"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer."
Gertrude Stein
"Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening."
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."
Gertrude Stein
"I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking."
Gertrude Stein
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