--- title: "13 Real Quotes By Gertrude Stein" description: "13 Real quotes by Gertrude Stein. Plus more from Gertrude Stein and more Real sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/gertrude-stein-667_life_there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-ima_3149828.jpg" --- > [There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-imagined-life-any-more/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/gertrude-stein-667_life_there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-ima_3149828.jpg) > [A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/a-real-failure-does-not-need-an-excuse-it-is-an-end-in-itself/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cf/gertrude-stein-667_doe_a-real-failure-does-not-need-an-excuse-i_2318500.jpg) > [The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/the-reason-why-all-of-us-naturally-began-to-live-in-france-is-because/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28b/gertrude-stein-667_believe_the-reason-why-all-of-us-naturally-began_3231408.jpg) > [A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/a-virgin-a-whole-virgin-is-judged-made-and-so-between-curves-and/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be6/gertrude-stein-667_curves_a-virgin-a-whole-virgin-is-judged-made-a_3078787.jpg) > [War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/war-is-more-like-a-novel-than-it-is-like-real-life-and-that-is-its/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c90/gertrude-stein-667_books_war-is-more-like-a-novel-than-it-is-like_1693139.jpg) > [Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/language-as-a-real-thing-is-not-imitation-either-of-sounds-or-colors/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a83/gertrude-stein-667_color_language-as-a-real-thing-is-not-imitatio_2197656.jpg) > [I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-like-a-thing-simple-but-it-must-be-simple-through-complication/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/514/gertrude-stein-667_achieve_i-like-a-thing-simple-but-it-must-be-sim_2730867.jpg) > [I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-am-writing-for-myself-and-strangers-this-is-the-only-way-that-i-can-2/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/820/gertrude-stein-667_can-do_i-am-writing-for-myself-and-strangers-th_1191734.jpg) > [This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/this-is-the-real-thing-of-disillusion-that-no-one-not-any-one-really/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1f/gertrude-stein-667_believe_this-is-the-real-thing-of-disillusion-th_903369.jpg) > [A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/a-saint-a-real-saint-never-does-anything-a-martyr-does-something-but/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/gertrude-stein-667_doe_a-saint-a-real-saint-never-does-anything_1623043.jpg) > [Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/coffee-is-real-good-when-you-drink-it-gives-you-time-to-think-it-s-a/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79c/gertrude-stein-667_being-yourself_coffee-is-real-good-when-you-drink-it-gi_190699.jpg) > [After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/after-all-everybody-that-is-everybody-who-writes-is-interested-in/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/134/gertrude-stein-667_country_after-all-everybody-that-is-everybody-wh_2051271.jpg) > [... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-point-in-being-realistic-about-here-and-now-no-use-at-all/) [Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63c/gertrude-stein-667_being-real_there-is-no-point-in-being-realistic-abo_1176729.jpg) ## Other authors on Real ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/real/gertrude-stein/#itemlist", "name": "13 Real Quotes By Gertrude Stein", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gertrude Stein" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-imagined-life-any-more/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/gertrude-stein-667_life_there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-ima_3149828.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/gertrude-stein-667_life_there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-ima_3149828.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/gertrude-stein-667_life_there-is-no-real-reality-to-a-really-ima_3149828.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.” — Gertrude Stein", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A real failure does not need an excuse. 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