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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

“It is funny about money. And it is funny about identity. You are you because your little dog knows you, but when your public knows you and does not want to pay for you and when your public knows you and does want to pay for you, you are not the same you.”

Knows Want Littles Doe Pay Dog Identity

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“Some men and women are inquisitive about everything, they are always asking, if they see any one with anything they ask what is that thing, what is it you are carrying, what are you going to be doing with that thing, why have you that thing, where did you get that thing, how long will you have that thing, there are very many men and women who want to know about anything about everything.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Long Asks Men And Women Asking Curiosity Inquisitive

Book: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…

Source: 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…

“I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.”

People Knows Want Funny Funny People

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.”

Way Want War Literature Walking Dancing Back When

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“You have to know what you want to get it.”

Knows Want Inspirational Goal What You Want Setting Goals Life Goal Goals And Life Inspirational Goal Setting Motivational Goal

Author:Gertrude Stein

“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.”

Want Humans Humanity Human Beings Solitude Memorable Being Alone Feeling Alone Wants To Be Alone Like Being Alone Happy Alone

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

“You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.”

Ifs Knows Want Inspirational Trying Has Beens Seems Vision Track What You Want Dry

Author:Gertrude Stein

“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.”

Want Desire Literature Rich Get Rich

Author:Gertrude Stein

“The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.”

Want Feels One Thing Scared Controlled Fearful Threatened Obliged

Author:Gertrude Stein

“I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.”

Want Feelings

Book:Narration: four lectures

Source: Narration: four lectures

“I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.”

Knows Way Want Writing I Can Real Can Do Stranger I Can Do It Real Ones

Book:Gertrude Stein: Selections

Source: Gertrude Stein: Selections

About the Author

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

Books & Sources

Everybody's AutobiographyRelated source material

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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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