... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
Gertrude SteinThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
Gertrude SteinAnimals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
Gertrude SteinDogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
Gertrude Steinthere are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
Gertrude Stein