It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.
Gertrude SteinThere is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
Gertrude SteinThere is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.
Gertrude SteinI tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
Gertrude SteinCoffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.
Gertrude Stein