65 ordspråk av Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein föddes den
3 Februar 1874 och dog den 27 Juli
1946 - among the first to appreciate and collect the works of major artists.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Let me listen to me and not to them
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Literature -- creative literature -- unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
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Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.
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Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls
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Money is always there but the pockets change
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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.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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