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Romance is everything. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#everything #romance

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#duchess #earth #nothing #peasant #sees

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

#between #difference #end #everything #thirty

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

— Gertrude Stein

#good #such #thing #wife #your

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#lesson #repetition #teaches

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

— Gertrude Stein

#communists #fancied #had #happy childhood #people

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#generation #hope #religion #salvation #this generation

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

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#down #ground #hill #looking #nearer