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Gertrude Stein Quotes about Literature - Page 2

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

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

Time, Believe, Literature

Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.109, Vintage

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Flower, Literature, Plastic Flowers

Title of story (written 1930)

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

Girl, Men, Literature

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

Reality, Two, Literature

Afterword to an edition on "What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them", as quoted by Robert Haas in a January 1946 interview,

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.

Differences, Twenties, Literature

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 “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs.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

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Luxury, Rose, Literature

"Sacred Emily" (1913). Frequently misquoted as "a rose is a rose is a rose." The allusion is not to a flower but to English painter Francis Rose.

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

Literature, Knows, Do You Know

Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.88, Taylor & Francis

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

Country, House, Literature

"Blood on the Dining Room Floor".

History takes time. History makes memory.

Memories, History, Literature

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Literature, Rhyming, Dictionary

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

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Luck, Literature, Conviction

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 “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs.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

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

Finding The One, Literature, Disillusionment

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.761, e-artnow

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.

Discovery, Literature, Logic

Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.105, Random House

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

Religion, Literature, This Generation

Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.133, Vintage

Remarks aren't literature.

Literature, Crafts, Remarks

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Wish, Literature, Misery

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

Country, Passion, Literature

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

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

Marriage, Literature, Stones

Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.74, Taylor & Francis

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.

War, Dancing, Literature

Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.118, Vintage

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

Sadness, Friendly, Literature

Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6132, Delphi Classics

Remarks are not literature.

Writing, Literature, Remarks

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ch. 7 (1933)

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