More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.
Gertrude SteinSupposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Gertrude SteinIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Gertrude SteinIt is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
Gertrude SteinEating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.
Gertrude Stein