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Gertrude Stein
February 3, 1874 - July 29, 1946
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author

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?'

   

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

   

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

   

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

   

A diary means yes indeed.

   

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

   

History takes time. History makes memory.

   

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

   

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

   

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

   

Romance is everything.

   

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

   

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

   

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

   

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

   

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

   

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.

   

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

   

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.

   

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

   

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