A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.
Gertrude SteinOne of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.
Gertrude SteinThere is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is.
Gertrude SteinOne of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
Gertrude Stein