Inspiring Quotes by Gertrude Stein - Page 2

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"An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work"

"Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood"

"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?'"

"Action and reaction are equal and opposite"

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears"

"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"

"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"

"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that"

"There is no such thing as being good to your wife"

"There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more"

"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"

"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer"

"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money"

"The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic"

"It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night"

"To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write"

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

"What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country"

"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"

"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"

"There is no there there"

"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself"

"It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock"

"If you can do it then why do it?"

"It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death"

"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage"

"That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back"

"I think the reason I am important is that I know everything"

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

"A house in the country is not the same as a country house"

"A diary means yes indeed"

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