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Letter "G" » Gertrude Stein Quotes
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«It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
«The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.»
«Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.»
«Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.»
«Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.»
«I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
«A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.1943»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
«Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
«Gertrude Stein and a Companion»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
«There is no there there.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
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