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Quotes by Gertrude Stein
- I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
- I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
- 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.
- In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
- It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
- It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
- It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
- It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
- It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
- 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.
- It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
- It is very easy to love alone.
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