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Gertrude Stein Quotes
«What was the use of my having come from Oakland, it was not natural to have come from there, yes, write about it if I like or anything, if I like, but not there, there is no there there»
«The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
| Keywords:
just now, mother country, The Civil War, twentieth century
«I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
| Keywords:
affectionate, appeals, business methods, contend, excitements, family business, in short, middle class, respectable, serenity, The Middle Class
«If you can do it then why do it?»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
«One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
«It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son»
«What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)