Gertrude Stein Quotes

A light white, a disgras, an ink spot, a rosy charm.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

"If you can do it, why do it." ~ Gertrude Stein

The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

What is a nail. A nail is unison.

It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.

A FEATHER.

A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

One must dare to be happy

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

I was talking like this to the Princeton professor and he said well if these are the facts there is no hope and I said well what is hope hope is just contact with the facts.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be.

Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.

The more you see how the country is the more you do not wonder why they shut the door. The women do in a way and yet if they did not it would be best.