Language Quotes by Gertrude Stein

12 Language quotes by Gertrude Stein

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Stein’s playful experiments with syntax and sound come through in these twelve moments. They’re enough to illustrate her avant‑garde spirit without overwhelming a newcomer.

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“So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use.”

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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

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A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or…

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There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must…

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When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry…

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If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the…

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Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there…

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it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could…

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I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

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