Gertrude Stein

A diary means yes indeed.
Gertrude Stein

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
Gertrude Stein

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Gertrude Stein

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein

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.
Gertrude Stein

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
Gertrude Stein

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
Gertrude Stein

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Gertrude Stein

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
Gertrude Stein

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
Gertrude Stein

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude Stein

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
Gertrude Stein

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
Gertrude Stein

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
Gertrude Stein

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