Gertrude Stein

We are always the same age inside.

age


Gertrude Stein

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.

alone


Gertrude Stein

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

art


Gertrude Stein

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

change


Gertrude Stein

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

dad


Gertrude Stein

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

failure


Gertrude Stein

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

family


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?'

family


Gertrude Stein

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

family


Gertrude Stein

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

friendship


Gertrude Stein

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.

funny


Gertrude Stein

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

future


Gertrude Stein

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

history


Gertrude Stein

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

history


Gertrude Stein

History takes time. History makes memory.

history


Gertrude Stein

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

hope


Gertrude Stein

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

hope


Gertrude Stein

It is very easy to love alone.

love


Gertrude Stein

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

marriage


Gertrude Stein

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.

men


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?'

men


Gertrude Stein

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

money


Gertrude Stein

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

money


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