There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
Gertrude SteinThe phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
Gertrude SteinHuman beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.
Gertrude SteinAnimals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
Gertrude SteinI think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.
Gertrude Stein