Best Gertrude Stein Lines
- This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. History
- You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have… Been
- Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. Counting
- I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. Always Firmly
- I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient. Declared
- I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not… Always Choosing
- It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. All
- It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night. Care
- It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to… Allure
- Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. Commonplace
- Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. Climb
- One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. Daily
- Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. Consists
- Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air. Air
- Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. Beans
- The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time. Difference
- There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more. Any
- War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. Always Lost
- A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. Agriculture
- 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… Beginning
- Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to… Age
- Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me… Child
- In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country… All
- 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… Came
- The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can… Accept
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