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Gertrude Stein Quotes

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Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) 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 Quotes) Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) I don’t want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn’t own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, ‘You’re all a lost generation.’ That got around to certain people and we all said, ‘Whee! We’re lost  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, ‘What is the answer?’ Then, after a long silence, ‘What is the question?’ Don’t start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) There are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) ... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don’t understand.  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) It is an extraordinary thing but it is true, wars are only a means of publicising the things already accomplished.  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert’s writing was hazy, Ep’s statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.  (Gertrude Stein Quotes) 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 Quotes) Gertrude Stein said, I write for myself and strangers. I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.  (Gertrude Stein Quotes)
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