Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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.
By Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
By Gertrude Stein
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.
By Gertrude Stein
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
By Gertrude Stein
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.
By Gertrude Stein
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.
By Gertrude Stein
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
By Gertrude Stein
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.
By Gertrude Stein
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
By Gertrude Stein
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
By Gertrude Stein
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
By Gertrude Stein
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
By Gertrude Stein
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
By 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.
By Gertrude Stein
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
By Gertrude Stein
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
By Gertrude Stein
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.
By Gertrude Stein
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
By Gertrude Stein