Famous Quotes by Gertrude Stein
- Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population. More
- A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A... More
- I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate,... More
- Romance is everything. More
- History takes time.... History makes memory. More
- It does make a big difference, it is why Robin Hood lives,
crime if you know the reason if... More
- Very likely education does not make very much difference. More
- ... living in England does not free the American the way living in France frees him because the... More
- It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely... More
- It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important. More
- ... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or... More
- Adventure is making the distant approach nearer
but romance is having what is where it is... More
- Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. More
- Action and reaction are equal and opposite. More
- There are two kinds of liars the kind that lie and thekind that don’t lie the kind that lie are... More
- Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. More
- Jews do not like the country, yes thank you, christians donot all like the city. Yes and thank... More
- I don’t envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes... More
- It is richly held
To be not all for it
Because
Idleness is no blessing More
- No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no... More
- It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken. More
- There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance... More
- A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. More
- Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world....... More
- I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your... More
- Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in... More
- I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. More
- Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is... More
- When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well
that I am what I seem when I am... More
- Success is the result achieved when nobody answers. More
- A house in the country is not the same as a country house. More
- I tell you boys there aint any answer, just you believe me, there aint any answer,... there aint... More
- I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead... More
- I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorise success. I authorise it alright. Smile. More
- ... the creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. More
- No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the... More
- There is singularly nothing that makes a difference a difference in beginning and in the middle... More
- If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire. More
- Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. More
- It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing... More
- Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. More
- It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing... More
- Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then... More
- Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very... More
- Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five
thousand Chinamen if I could save my... More
- I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. More
- Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a... More
- The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody... More
- One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen... More
- It does change the age that is young, once in Paris it was twenty-six, then it was twenty-two,... More
- There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. More
- It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds... More
- The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and... More
- Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere.... More
- That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to... More
- We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me
why American men think that success... More
- There is no there there. More
- Religion is this. They act as in religion that is to say they neither wait nor stay away.... More
- A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. More
- Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and
nobody knows what you mean no matter... More
- Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I... More
- It is very easy to love alone. More
- Pigeons on the grass alas.
Pigeons on the grass alas.
Short longer grass short longer... More
- The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn’t make enough difference... More
- The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything... More
- If nobody knows you that does not argue that you be unknown, nobody knew Ida when they no longer... More
- Poetry is I say essentially a vocabulary just as prose is essentially not. And what is the... More
- What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. More
- Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing... More
- A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with... More
- There is no such thing as being good to your wife. More
- They were regular in being gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, they... More
- Is money money or isn’t money money. Everybody who earns
it and spends it every day in... More
- If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. More
- There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the... More
- The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. More
- All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh.
Sighing is extra. More
- Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer. More
- War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a... More
- Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream,... More
- One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It... More
- It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not... More
- As always art is the pulse of a nation. More
- The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the... More
- Sentences and paragraphs. Sentences are not emotional but paragraphs are. I can say that as often... More
- Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an... More
- Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing
with wanting, with denying with... More
- The question mark is alright when it is all alone when it
is used as a brand on cattle or... More
- When I said.
A rose is a rose is a rose.
And then later made that into a ring I made... More
- It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren... More
- Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough. More
- There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the... More
- The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just.... I am reasonable because I know... More
- Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. More
- Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. More
- All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.... You have no respect... More
- Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. More
- A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a... More
- Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining... More
- In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal. More
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