There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude SteinIt is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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 SteinI simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
Gertrude Stein