{"author":"Gertrude Stein","author_id":"Gertrude+Stein","total_quotes":76,"quotes":[{"text":"You have to learn to do everything  even to die.","author":"Gertrude Stein","tags":["death","dying"],"id":6057,"author_id":"Gertrude+Stein"},{"text":"I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.","author":"Gertrude Stein","tags":["find","possible","pupil "],"id":10193,"author_id":"Gertrude+Stein"},{"text":"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.","author":"Gertrude Stein","tags":["end","real","need "],"id":20906,"author_id":"Gertrude+Stein"},{"text":"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.","author":"Gertrude Stein","tags":["common-sense","gertrude-stein","information","natural"],"id":21735,"author_id":"Gertrude+Stein"},{"text":"For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.","author":"Gertrude Stein","tags":["acceptance","refusal"],"id":26933,"author_id":"Gertrude+Stein"},{"text":"It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,.","author":"Gertrude Stein","tags":["change","four-lectures","gertrude-stein","history","narration"],"id":28461,"author_id":"Gertrude+Stein"},{"text":"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ","author":"Gertrude Stein","tags":["humour"],"id":34691,"author_id":"Gertrude+Stein"},{"text":"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.","author":"Gertrude Stein","tags":["want","human","like "],"id":43748,"author_id":"Gertrude+Stein"},{"text":"She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. He never said anything. She was afraid then, she was one needing charming stories and happy telling of them and not having that thing she was always trembling.","author":"Gertrude Stein","tags":["anxiety","death","depression","father-daughter","fear","hope","stories","uncertainty"],"id":51659,"author_id":"Gertrude+Stein"},{"text":"I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.","author":"Gertrude Stein","tags":["writers","writers-on-writing","writing","writing"],"id":58921,"author_id":"Gertrude+Stein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":76,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}