Gertrude Stein Quotes

I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.

Remarks aren't literature.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

Nature is not natural and that is natural enough.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.

I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

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

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

You can either buy clothes or buy pictures.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

Two things are always the same the dance and war.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

You never answer a question nobody does.

Affectations can be dangerous.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.

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,

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

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

A FEATHER.A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

Light tomorrow with today.

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

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.

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

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

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

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

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

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

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

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.

Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.

A rose is a rose is a rose.