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Gertrude Stein
Counting is the...
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
It is inevitable...
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a...
Literature -- creative...
Literature -- creative literature -- unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Money is always...
Money is always there, but the pockets change.
Source: The Practical Cogitator,...
The contemporary thing...
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that...
Everybody gets so...
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
It takes a...
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing...
Nature is commonplace....
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Source: In My Autobiography,...
Everybody knows if...
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...
I write for...
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.
Native always means...
Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the...
Let me listen...
Let me listen to me and not them.
Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...
Remarks are not...
Remarks are not literature.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
One does not...
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Considering how dangerous...
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really frightening.
Source: In...
Americans are very...
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the...
The unreal is...
The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what...
It is extraordinary...
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is...
Oh, I wish...
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Source: Quoted by...
I want to...
I want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Source:...