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Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet.

Quotes from Gertrude Stein

We are always the same age inside.

—Gertrude Stein

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

—Gertrude Stein

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

—Gertrude Stein

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There are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.

—Gertrude Stein

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

—Gertrude Stein

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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

—Gertrude Stein

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

—Gertrude Stein

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

—Gertrude Stein

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

—Gertrude Stein

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It is very easy to love alone.

—Gertrude Stein

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

—Gertrude Stein

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Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

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Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.

—Gertrude Stein

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

—Gertrude Stein

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