Gertrude Stein Quotes

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Gertrude Stein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946

Topics

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I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

Jennifer Egan

LoveMeTryingWriteAlwaysWorking

Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.

Jeff Goodell

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Jean Rostand

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I'm a karmic girl; I believe in karma.

Alysia Reiner

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The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

Stephen Furst

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I've got to be a husband on my visa. Going to Russia can be scary - you've got to compete in front of lots of people who know I've got a husband.

Tom Daley

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Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together.

Jon Ronson

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Good words will not give me back my children.

Chief Joseph

GoodChildrenWordsMeBackWill

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

Claude Debussy

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine Rivarol

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I would never undermine a person's interpretation of a creative work.

Anohni

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I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great.

Todd English

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