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“This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.”

Quote by Gertrude Stein

Book:A Stein Reader

Work

This reader offers a selection of Gertrude Stein's poetry, essays, and plays, showcasing her innovative style and influential contributions to modern literature. more

Author

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. more

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Source: Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

“there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.”

Thinking Knows Way Giving Feelings Waiting Alive Dying Eating Always Waiting

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

“I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.”

People Ifs Way Taken England Lawyer Income

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Source: Wars I have seen

“I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.”

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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

“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.”

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Author:Gertrude Stein

“Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.”

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Book:A Stein Reader

Source: A Stein Reader

“there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

“It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.”

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Author:Gertrude Stein

“each generation has something different at which they are all looking.”

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Source: Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

“The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.”

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Source: THE MAKING OF AMERICANS (Modern Classics Series): A History of a Family's Progress