#be

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived. ↗

— 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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#any #argument #believing #breathe #cannot

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#child #children #conscious #everybody #existence

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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There is no such thing as being good to your wife. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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