Top 100 Quotes About Gertrude

#1. Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?

Roddy Piper

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#2. His pictures of this region summarize the soulful emptiness of a country where, as Gertrude Stein observed, 'there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.

Sarah Vowell

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#3. But what do you think, my lady?'
'I think that she must be cruel if she wants to be loved,' Gertrude explained. ' For once a lady succumbs to the man's desire, he rejects her as unworthy of it.'...Was love like a hunger, easily satisfied by feeding? Or did it grow by what it fed on?

Lisa Klein

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#4. I am I because my little dog knows me. - GERTRUDE STEIN

Alexandra Horowitz

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#5. I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

Harold E. Varmus

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#6. In the fifteen or so years he has known her, A.J. thinks Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.

Gabrielle Zevin

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#7. [Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.

James Laughlin

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#8. I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

Gertrude Stein

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#9. Definitely not a Gertrude.

Robert Liparulo

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#10. In a notable family called Stein
There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein.
Gert's writing was hazy,
Ep's statues were crazy,
And nobody understood Ein.

Bennett Cerf

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#11. Nd looking up into Abednego's face she fought a battle inside herself with the thing that it was, a sort of grabbing thing, and then she held Gertrude out to him. "You have her," she said.

Elizabeth Goudge

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#12. The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

Diana Vreeland

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#13. When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878

Margaret Brownley

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#14. You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

James Thurber

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#15. People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others ...

Randall Jarrell

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#16. Gertrude drives on. She says, 'Right or wrong, this is the road and we are on it,

Jeanette Winterson

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#17. Our little ford was almost ready. She was later to be called Auntie after Gertrude Stein's aunt Pauline who always behaved admirably in emergencies and behaved fairly well most times if she was properly flattered.

Gertrude Stein

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#18. He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

Anne Carson

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#19. [On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limited edition, and reading it is anyhow a sort of permanent occupation.

Katherine Anne Porter

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#20. Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

Leslie Fiedler

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#21. Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding ... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.

Wyndham Lewis

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#22. Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.

Randall Jarrell

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#23. Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.

Edward Hirsch

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#24. There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures)

Gertrude Stein

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#25. You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Ernest Hemingway,

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#26. Gertrude, behind her, again had just one ... That one little feather she had as a starter. But now that's enough, because now she is smarter.

Dr. Seuss

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#27. Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult).

John Scalzi

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#28. Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

James Laughlin

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#29. It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

Raymond Queneau

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#30. Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

William Shakespeare

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#31. This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.

Alice B. Toklas

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#32. Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Clifton Fadiman

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#33. In this case," said Randall unpleasantly, "it affords me purer gratification to dwell upon the thought of my dear Aunt Gertrude duped and betrayed."
"Your aunt doesn't suffer throught it!"
"What a pity!" said Randall.

Georgette Heyer

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#34. Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

Dorothy Parker

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#35. Gertrude reckoned sherry had been as much to do with Myrtle's early retirement as had the demands of celebrating Diwali.

John Wiltshire

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#36. Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.

Mina Loy

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#37. You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.

Jonah Winter

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#38. I found myself stuck into a Gertrude's Dream Waltz universe. Like Gertrude, I was trapped inside a body that bellied little of the person inside, while simultaneously ensnared in a home filled with people that looked like the person inside the unsightly body.

Luella Christie

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#39. Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.

Edward Abbey

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#40. According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.

Brendan I. Koerner

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#41. Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car ...

Alice B. Toklas

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#42. The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

Randall Jarrell

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#43. Gertrude was a veteran of the love wars.

Jerry Pinto

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#44. I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.

Morrissey

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#45. Gertrude's remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word "Woe," which she handed out gaily declaring, "Woe is me.

Ross Wetzsteon

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#46. ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.

Frederick Buechner

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#47. If you can do it, why do it." ~ Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

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#48. After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

Gertrude Stein

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#49. Now," Gertrude said as soon as they were seated, "tell me what's got you so upset, and don't bother denying it because I've known you too long not to recognize the anxiety radiating off you.

Elizabeth Camden

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#50. Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.

Laura Mullen

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#51. Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

Gertrude Stein

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#52. I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

Gertrude Stein

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#53. All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?

Gertrude Bell

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#54. I had fallen in love with a young man ... , and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis ... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery ...

Gertrude B. Elion

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#55. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

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#56. When is there some discharge when. There never is.

Gertrude Stein

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#57. If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

Gertrude Stein

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#58. Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

Gertrude Stein

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#59. Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

Gertrude Stein

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#60. This joy you feel is life.

Gertrude Stein

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#61. When I said.
A rose is a rose is a rose.
And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what
did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed
a noun.

Gertrude Stein

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

Gertrude Stein

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#63. A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Gertrude Stein

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#64. I'm not buried in that plot, Karoline. Some woman claiming to be me from the future is."
"Why do they call it a plot, anyway?"
"Because this is how every story ends.

Brian K. Vaughan

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#65. Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

Gertrude Atherton

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#66. But her role had changed; she was now available for marriage and her primary task was to find a mate. As Florence and Hugh Bell's daughter, she was expected to make an excellent match. And if there wasn't one here, at least she would learn how to conduct herself for the chase.

Janet Wallach

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#67. I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.

Gertrude Stein

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#68. If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

Gertrude Atherton

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#69. 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

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#70. To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

Gertrude Jekyll

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#71. Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

Gertrude Stein

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#72. Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

Gertrude Stein

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#73. If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.

Gertrude Lawrence

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#74. And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Gertrude Stein

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#75. Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

Gertrude Stein

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#76. MYSTERY OF THE TRAVELING

Gertrude Chandler Warner

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#77. A diary means yes indeed.

Gertrude Stein

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#78. Too few is as many as too many.

Gertrude Stein

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#79. When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Gertrude Stein

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#80. It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Gertrude Stein

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#81. Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

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#82. ...I have gone on beginning...

Gertrude Stein

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#83. America is my country, and Paris is my home town.

Gertrude Stein

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#84. What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

Gertrude Stein

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#85. We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein

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#86. A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.

Gertrude Stein

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#87. The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

Gertrude Stein

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#88. I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Gertrude Stein

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#89. You are all a lost generation.

Gertrude Stein

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#90. Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

Gertrude Stein

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#91. So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens?

Gertrude Berg

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#92. If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

Gertrude Atherton

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#93. I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.

Gertrude Jekyll

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#94. The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

Gertrude Atherton

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#95. A rose is a rose is a rose.

Gertrude Stein

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#96. Slowly I came to know that the depth of our heartbreaks determines the depth of our faith. God gives us everything to conquer the big and the little hurts of life.

Gertrude Ederle

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#97. Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

Gertrude Stein

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#98. [Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

Gertrude Atherton

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#99. The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

Gertrude Atherton

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#100. This is what I like," said Jesse. "Everything seems better when we have to work to get it.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

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