I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
Gertrude SteinMore great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
Gertrude SteinThere is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
Gertrude SteinIt is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.
Gertrude Stein