It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude SteinThe phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
Gertrude SteinMore 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 SteinTo be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
Gertrude Stein