Gertrude Stein Quotes

We are always the same age inside.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing...

A rose is a rose is a rose.

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows ...

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that...

We are always the same age inside.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic pr...

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember y...

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you a...

You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance.

A FEATHER.A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed b...

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

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

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be consci...

nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that ...

The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection o...

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

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone...

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of t...

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change and that...

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not pat...

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

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes A...

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stu...

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

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

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the a...

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are ...

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

When you get there there isn't any there there.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more sim...

Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stu...

I am because my little dog knows me.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

It is very easy to love alone.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marr...

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

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to ...

She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. H...

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is...

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does ...

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in orde...

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in ...

A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)

Romance is everything.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers dear Readers are an afterthought.

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over somet...

Let me listen to me and not to them.

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing n...

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

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoke...