Tuesday 3 February 2015

3rd February: Gertrude Stein quotes

Gertrude Stein was born on this date in 1874.


  1. The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
  2. Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
  3. A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
  4. Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
  5. I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
  6. It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
  7. I do want to get rich, but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
  8. Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
  9. We are always the same age inside.
  10. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.


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