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

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

   

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

   

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

   

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.

   

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

   

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

   

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

   

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.

   

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

   

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

   

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

   

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

   

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

   

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

   

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

   

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