Gertrude Stein Quotes

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Gertrude Stein

Profession : Author

Birth : February 3, 1874

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

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

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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

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What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

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I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

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

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I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

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