Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
Gertrude SteinIf everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.
Gertrude SteinI was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
Gertrude SteinLanguage as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.
Gertrude SteinThe one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.
Gertrude Stein