Gertrude Stein Quotes

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

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

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

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

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

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

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

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

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

I wish that I was where I am.

How I wish I were able to say what I think.

Too few is as many as too many.

Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.

Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.

As there was never any question there was never any answer.

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.

When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.