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Gertrude Stein Quotes - Page 10

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.157, Random House

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

Gertrude Stein (2010). “Narration: Four Lectures”, p.37, University of Chicago Press

It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.

Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.200, e-artnow

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Gertrude Stein (2004). “Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945”, Peter Owen Publishers

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.30, Vintage

All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.

Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.

Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.907, e-artnow

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

Gertrude Stein (2013). “The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind”, p.8, Random House

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Gertrude Stein (1955). “Painted lace: and other pieces, 1914-1937”

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

"Voices: A Memoir". Book by Frederic Prokosch, 1983.