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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

#asked #before #came #case #died

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#inconceivable #literature #sex #unconcerned

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#does #i #i do #influence #long

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

— Gertrude Stein

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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#communists #fancied #had #happy childhood #people

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#back #civilization #dark #dark ages #does

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

— Gertrude Stein

#beings #human #human beings #interested #reality

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#closed #firmly #great #i #mouth

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#declared #i #more #never #patience

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#help #hurt #need #ones #only