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“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Inspirational #Knowledge #Technology
“Any time is the time to make a poem.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Poetry
“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Pleasure #Should
“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#History #Doe #Soothing
“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Inspirational #Women #Literature
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Time #Women #Philosophical
“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Writing #Thinking #Discovery
“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Country #Real #Writing
“We are always the same age inside.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Happy Birthday #Confidence #Positive Thinking
“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Important
“Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Assuming #Position
“One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Maturity #Get Better #Doe
“America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Country #America #Paris
“Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Being Yourself #Real #Coffee
“You have to know what you want to get it.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Inspirational #Goal #Want
“You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Looks #Might #Ridiculous
“Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Funny #Money #Saving
“Money is always there but the pockets change.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Money #Pockets
“I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Portraits #Literature #Mouths
“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Patience #Literature #Patient
“You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Inspirational #Track #Vision
“A diary means yes indeed.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Mean #Diaries #Literature
“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Dream #Literature #Revolutionary
“In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Literature #France #Fragrance
“If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Creation
“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?'”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Men #Careers #Problem
“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Literature #Audience
“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.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Funny #Strong #Men
“There is no there there.”
-- Gertrude Stein
“One must dare to be happy.”
-- Gertrude Stein

#Dare

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