Gertrude Stein Quotes

I am I because my little dog knows me.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

Forget grammar and think about potatoes

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

You attract what you need like a lover

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

You never answer a question nobody does.

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

A diary means yes indeed.

it is all the question of identity. ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside.

Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

We are always the same age inside.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.

One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.

I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.