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All Quotes by author - Gertrude Stein

" America is my country and Paris is my hometown. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. "

" If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. "

" I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it. "

" It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. "

" It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. "

" It is very easy to love alone. "

" It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. "

" Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. "

" One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. "

" Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. "

" Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. "

" Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone. "

" Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. "

" The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. "

" The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. "

" 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. "

" 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 be the end of everything. "

" There is no there there. "

" This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. "

" To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. "

" When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. "

" Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. "

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