Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

"Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense."
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"Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense."
Gertrude Stein
"Nothing has happened today except kindness."
Gertrude Stein
"She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting."
Gertrude Stein
"One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion."
Gertrude Stein
"You have to learn to do everything even to die."
Gertrude Stein
"When you get there there isn't any there there."
Gertrude Stein
"The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other."
Gertrude Stein
"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is."
Gertrude Stein
"If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
Gertrude Stein
"We are always the same age inside."
Gertrude Stein
"For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts."
Gertrude Stein
"A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)"
Gertrude Stein
"I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought."
Gertrude Stein
"I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do."
Gertrude Stein
"It is very easy to love alone."
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
"it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do."
Gertrude Stein
"It takes a heap of loafing to write a book."
Gertrude Stein
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
Gertrude Stein
"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."
Gertrude Stein
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