A diary means yes indeed.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
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 Quote
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
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 Quote
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
History takes time. History makes memory.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Let me listen to me and not to them.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
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.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Money is always there but the pockets change.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
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.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
We are always the same age inside.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
- Gertrude Stein Quote
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
- Gertrude Stein Quote
