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title: "29 Ifs Quotes By Gertrude Stein"
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> [If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/if-fishes-were-wishes-the-ocean-would-be-all-of-our-desire/)

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

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> [I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-really-do-know-that-it-can-be-done-and-if-it-can-be-done-why-do-it/)

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> [What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/what-is-the-use-of-being-a-little-boy-if-you-are-growing-up-to-be-a/)

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> [August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/august-is-a-month-when-if-it-is-hot-weather-it-is-really-very-hot/)

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

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> [I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-ll-always-be-alice-toklas-if-you-ll-be-gertrude-stein/)

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

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> [ \[On Ezra Pound:\] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/on-ezra-pound-a-village-explainer-excellent-if-you-were-a-village-but/)

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

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> [If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/if-you-are-a-thinker-you-will-change-the-language-you-will-not-use/)

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

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> [Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/perhaps-i-am-not-i-even-if-my-little-dog-knows-me-but-anyway-i-like/)

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

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> [you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/you-are-brilliant-and-subtle-if-you-come-from-iowa-and-really-strange/)

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

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> [If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/if-anything-is-a-surprise-then-there-is-not-much-difference-between/)

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> [More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/more-and-more-i-am-certain-that-the-only-difference-between-man-and/)

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> [What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/what-was-the-use-of-my-having-come-from-oakland-it-was-not-natural-to/)

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

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> [I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-had-always-been-so-much-taken-with-the-way-all-english-people-i/)

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> [From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/from-the-very-nature-of-progress-all-ages-must-be-transitional-if/)

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> [You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/you-have-to-know-what-you-want-and-if-it-seems-to-take-you-off-the/)

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

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> [it is all the question of identity. ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/it-is-all-the-question-of-identity-as-long-as-the-outside-does-not/)

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> [I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-often-think-how-celebrated-i-am-it-is-difficult-not-to-think-how/)

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

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> [There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs……](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-passion-more-dominant-and-instinctive-in-the-human-spirit/)

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

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> [It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/it-always-did-bother-me-that-the-american-public-were-more-interested/)

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> [Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/ezra-pound-still-lives-in-a-village-and-his-world-is-a-kind-of/)

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

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> [If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/if-the-stars-are-suns-and-the-earth-is-the-earth-and-there-are-men/)

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

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> [Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/would-i-if-i-could-by-pushing-a-button-would-i-kill-five-thousand/)

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> [Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/clarity-is-of-no-importance-because-nobody-listens-and-nobody-knows/)

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

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> [Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/don-t-write-about-what-you-don-t-know-even-if-you-don-t-know-it/)

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

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> [If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/if-things-happen-all-the-time-you-are-never-nervous-it-is-when-they/)

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

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> [If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/if-you-write-a-half-hour-a-day-it-makes-a-lot-of-writing-year-by-year/)

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> [Some men and women are inquisitive about everything, they are always asking, if they see any one with anything they ask what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/some-men-and-women-are-inquisitive-about-everything-they-are-always/)

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> [An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/an-audience-is-pleasant-if-you-have-it-it-is-flattering-and/)

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> [We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/we-talked-about-and-that-has-always-been-a-puzzle-to-me-why-american/)

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

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## Other authors on Ifs

## 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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