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> [Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/water-astonishing-and-difficult-altogether-makes-a-meadow-and-a-stroke/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

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> [it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/it-is-a-surprising-thing-that-the-largest-city-in-the-world-should/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

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> [It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/it-is-very-difficult-in-quarreling-to-be-certain-in-either-one-what/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

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## More by Gertrude Stein

> [I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-certainly-do-care-for-you-jeff-campbell-less-than-you-are-always/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/americans-are-very-friendly-and-very-suspicious-that-is-what/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/just-as-everybody-has-the-vote-including-women-i-think-children/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [“When is there some discharge when. There never is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/when-is-there-some-discharge-when-there-never-is/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-such-thing-as-repetition-only-insistance/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-am-i-because-my-little-dog-knows-me-but-creatively-speaking-the/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/how-likely-are-definitions-to-be-pleasurable/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [ “What is the answer?" \[ I \[Alice B Toklas\] was silent \] In that case, what is the question?” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/what-is-the-answer-i-alice-b-toklas-was-silent-in-that-case-what-is/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/more-and-more-i-like-to-take-a-train-i-understand-why-the-french/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/adventure-is-making-the-distant-approach-nearer-but-romance-is-having/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [Forensics is eloquence and reduction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/forensics-is-eloquence-and-reduction/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/eating-and-sleeping-are-not-like-loving-and-breathing-washing-is-not/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-write-for-myself-and-strangers-the-strangers-dear-readers-are-an/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [“A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/a-bag-which-was-left-and-not-only-taken-but-turned-away-was-not-found/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-don-t-envisage-collectivism-there-is-no-such-animal-it-is-always/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

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