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

— Gertrude Stein

#common #common sense #day #everyone #gets

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

Romance is everything. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#everything #romance

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

— Gertrude Stein

#communists #fancied #had #happy childhood #people

Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is con­nected to the rhythm of music. They’re both about creating tension and knowing when to let it go. I’m always surprised when somebody funny is not musical. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#humor #music #funny

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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