"I have always noticed that in portraits of……" — Gertrude Stein
"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."
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208 Quotes by Gertrude Stein
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- Remarks are not literature.
- Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a…
- "Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race…
- Money is always there but the pockets change.
- I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
- Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
- I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
- One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
- One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
- Remarks aren't literature.
- It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like…
- The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she…