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Gertrude Stein Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“...in the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
— Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
Tagged: Day and Night, Morning, Evening, Life, meaning in life, Productivity, Resting
“One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.”
— Gertrude Stein, Paris France
Tagged: Writing, Painting, Daily Miracle, Miracle
“I certainly do care for you...less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing.”
— Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
Tagged: Caring about someone, caring, Feelings, Concerned, feelings towards someone, Love, human affairs, Relationships
“Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.”
— Gertrude Stein, Form and Intelligibility
Tagged: argument, Proposition, defense, Debate
“Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said”
— Gertrude Stein, What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them
Tagged: Words, Thing, dead
“When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.”
— Gertrude Stein, Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded
Tagged: Sleep, Dream, Dreaming
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
— Gertrude Stein, Reflections on the Atom Bomb
Tagged: information, Common Sense
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
— Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography
Tagged: Time, Genius, Knowledge, Doing Nothing
“Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.”
— Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans
Tagged: Disillusionment, Living, Understanding, agreement
“Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.”
— Gertrude Stein, An American and France
Tagged: Adventure, romance
“A master-piece … may be unwelcome but it is never dull.”
— Gertrude Stein, What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them
Tagged: Masterpiece, Judgement, Art
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