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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Gertrude Stein
May
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein
Failure
End
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
Beginning
Garden
Nothing
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
Eyes
Writer
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
Gertrude Stein
Action
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein
America
Country
Paris
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
Common sense
Day
Information
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
Gertrude Stein
Work
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein
Friendship
Flowers
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
Gertrude Stein
Men
Family
Career
Saying
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein
People
Childhood
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
Gertrude Stein
Nothing
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein
Religion
Hope
Salvation
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude Stein
Disillusionment
Living
Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
Gertrude Stein
Forget
Population
Propaganda