Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

—Gertrude Stein

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About Gertrude Stein

Portrait of Gertrude Stein

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...

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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

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

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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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

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

—Gertrude Stein

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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

—Henry Ward Beecher

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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

—Robert Green Ingersoll

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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

—Pablo Neruda

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One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

—Robert Fortune

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