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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

Birthname

AKA Gertrude Stein

Birthday February 3, 1874

Death July 27, 1946

Manner of Death Natural Causes

Educated At Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins School Of Medicine, Harvard University, Radcliffe College

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Art Collector, Autobiographer, Playwright, Salonnière, Librettist

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...in the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

— Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

Day and Night Morning Evening Life meaning in life Productivity Resting

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Dear you, f*ck
you.

— Gertrude Stein, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922

Funny humor Curse

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

— Gertrude Stein, What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them

writer Eyes paint Ears

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Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

— Gertrude Stein, What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them

human beings Interest Reality Story

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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

Writing Painting Daily Miracle Miracle

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I certainly do care for you...less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing.

— Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

Caring about someone caring Feelings Concerned feelings towards someone Love human affairs Relationships

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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

— Gertrude Stein, What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them

Simplicity Complication Achieving Simplicity

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A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

— Gertrude Stein, Last Operas and Plays

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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

— Gertrude Stein, Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald

difference Change Pleasure

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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

— Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography

Everybody Careful Occupied Fail

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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

argument Proposition defense Debate

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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

Words Thing dead

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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

Sleep Dream Dreaming

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

— Gertrude Stein, Reflections on the Atom Bomb

information Common Sense

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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

Time Genius Knowledge Doing Nothing

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

— Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans

Disillusionment Living Understanding agreement

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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

Adventure romance

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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

— Gertrude Stein, Form and Intelligibility

Progress Age World Death Age Gap

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Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.

— Gertrude Stein, If I Told Him

History Past Teach Lessons History Teaches

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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.

— Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans

Writing Strangers

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

— Gertrude Stein, Four in America

Failure excuse End

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A master-piece … may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

— Gertrude Stein, What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them

Masterpiece Judgement Art

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No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

— Gertrude Stein, Composition as Explanation

Time Creativity Refusal Acceptance History Change

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