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Gertrude Stein, an American writer born on February 3, 1874, and died on July 27, 1946. She is renowned for her unique writing style and her influence on modernist literature.

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Famous Gertrude Stein Quotes

“Французы не любят тратить деньги это их тревожит, но к роскоши они относятся естественно, если она у вас есть это уже не роскошь а если у вас ее нет это еще не роскошь.”

Money Lifestyle Luxury French

Author:Gertrude Stein

“It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.”

Knows Men Way Can Do Animal Money Emotion Differentiate

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.”

Writing Pleasure Money Sweet Spending Spending Money

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.”

Mean Wealth My Own Money Pockets Purses

Book:Stanzas in meditation, and other poems, 1929-1933

Source: Stanzas in meditation, and other poems, 1929-1933

“More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.”

Ifs Men Certain Differences Animal Money

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.”

Wells Used Lost Easy Loses Money Get Real

Book:The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind

Source: The Geographical History of America: Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind

“When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.”

Knows Three Sound Differences Money Millions Vote Dollars Million Dollars

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows that money is money, anybody who votes it to be gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three.”

Knows Order Three Differences Money Millions Crazy Taxes Vote

Author:Gertrude Stein

“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.”

Literature Money Pockets Saving Money

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“Money is always there but the pockets change.”

Funny Money Pockets

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop”

About the Author

Born: February 3, 1874
Died: July 27, 1946
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 366

Books & Sources

Everybody's AutobiographyRelated source material

Wars I have seenRelated source material

How Writing Is WrittenRelated source material

GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…Related source material

Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)Related source material

A Stein ReaderRelated source material

Selected Writings of Gertrude SteinRelated source material

Writings, 1932-1946Related source material

Last Operas and PlaysRelated source material

Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945Related source material

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