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Quotes by Gertrude Stein

  • Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
  • 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.
  • There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
  • What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.
  • When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
  • Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
  • In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
  • Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
  • Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
  • Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
  • It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.