Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
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 SteinWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
Gertrude SteinWriters only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
Gertrude Stein