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1. "It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before," ~ Gertrude Stein
2. "I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything." ~ Gertrude Stein
3. "Coffee is 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
4. "The more you see how the country is the more you do not wonder why they shut the door. The women do in a way and yet if they did not it would be best." ~ Gertrude Stein
5. "You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle." ~ Gertrude Stein
6. "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." ~ Gertrude Stein
7. "There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer." ~ Gertrude Stein
8. "We are always the same age inside." ~ Gertrude Stein
9. "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
10. "A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears." ~ Gertrude Stein
11. "It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them." ~ Gertrude Stein
12. "Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question." ~ Gertrude Stein
13. "An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work." ~ Gertrude Stein
14. "Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything." ~ Gertrude Stein
15. "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
16. "Romance is everything." ~ Gertrude Stein
17. "America is my country and Paris is my hometown." ~ Gertrude Stein
18. "It is very easy to love alone." ~ Gertrude Stein
19. "There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing." ~ Gertrude Stein
20. "There is no there there." ~ Gertrude Stein
21. "The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting." ~ Gertrude Stein
22. "The thing that differentiates man from animals is money." ~ Gertrude Stein
23. "Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening." ~ Gertrude Stein
24. "Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money." ~ Gertrude Stein
25. "A FEATHER.A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive." ~ Gertrude Stein
26. "Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone." ~ Gertrude Stein
27. "Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know." ~ Gertrude Stein
28. "it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do." ~ Gertrude Stein
29. "You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance." ~ Gertrude Stein
30. "If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." ~ Gertrude Stein
31. "I love my love with a b because she is peculiar." ~ Gertrude Stein
32. "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
33. "It takes a heap of loafing to write a book." ~ Gertrude Stein
34. "I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing" ~ Gertrude Stein

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."
Author: Aristotle

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