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94 Inspirational Quotes By Gertrude Stein, The Author Of Fernhurst

Famous As: American Novelist, Poet and Playwright
Born On: 1874
Died On: 1946
Born In: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Died At Age: 72

Gertrude Stein was a novelist, playwright, a collector of art and poet from America, who lived in Paris for most of her life and is regarded as an integral member of the avant-garde literary movement in the city in first decades of the 20th century. She was born in a wealthy family and after graduating from the prestigious Radcliffe College, she attended the John Hopkins School of Medicine. However, she dropped out and instead moved to Paris in 1903 in order to pursue a career in literature. One of her first works, ‘Q.E.D’ was an autobiographical book on the love between two women. Her other notable works include ‘Three Lives’, ‘Tender Buttons’, ‘The Making of Americans’, ‘Fernhurst’ and ‘Word Portraits’ among others. Stein was a leading intellectual in Paris and was instrumental in bringing together some of the leading lights of the era  in her salon. Some of the individuals who visited her salon include Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemmingway among others. Her book ‘Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas’ was an account of her time in the city. Stein was without doubt a person who was far ahead of her time. Here are some of her most well-known quotes.

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One must dare to be happy.

One must dare to be happy.

Gertrude Stein
We are always the same age inside.

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Gertrude Stein
You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don't dance
So you might as well
dance.

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

Gertrude Stein
If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.

If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.

Gertrude Stein
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
There's your answer.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer.

Gertrude Stein
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Gertrude Stein
It is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

It is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

Gertrude Stein
Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Gertrude Stein
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

Gertrude Stein
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Gertrude Stein
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.

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

Gertrude Stein
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

Gertrude Stein
You attract what you need like a lover

You attract what you need like a lover

Gertrude Stein
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Gertrude Stein
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Gertrude Stein
You have to know what you want to get it.

You have to know what you want to get it.

Gertrude Stein
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

Gertrude Stein
America is my country, and Paris is my home town.

America is my country, and Paris is my home town.

Gertrude Stein
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.

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.

Gertrude Stein
You are all a lost generation.

You are all a lost generation.

Gertrude Stein
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

Gertrude Stein
Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

Gertrude Stein
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Gertrude Stein
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

Gertrude Stein
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?

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
Whenever you get there, there is no there there.

Whenever you get there, there is no there there.

Gertrude Stein
There is no there there.

There is no there there.

Gertrude Stein