“Religion is this. They act as in religion that is to say they neither wait nor stay away. Religion is best as it is. If they like it at all they like it all, not only more than once but often.”
Gertrude Stein
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“… more and more I like to take a train I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling, it is so much more sociable and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.”
Gertrude Stein
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“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept…. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
Gertrude Stein
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“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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“The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.”
Gertrude Stein
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“… governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting …”
Gertrude Stein
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“The history is always the same the product is always different and the history interests more than the product. More, that is, more. Yes. But if the product was not different the history which is the same would not be more interesting.”
Gertrude Stein
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“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
Gertrude Stein
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“… there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.”
Gertrude Stein
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“History takes time…. History makes memory.”
Gertrude Stein
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“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”
Gertrude Stein
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“… every day is any day.”
Gertrude Stein
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“… nobody nobody wants to learn either by their own or anybody else’s experience, nobody does, no they say they do but no nobodydoes, nobody does. Yes nobody does.”
Gertrude Stein
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“But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?'”
Gertrude Stein
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“It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.”
Gertrude Stein
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“Very likely education does not make very much difference.”
Gertrude Stein
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“It is very easy to love alone.”
Gertrude Stein
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“… the nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Not.”
Gertrude Stein
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“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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“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she “allures” us to our death.”
Gertrude Stein
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hope
