Gertrude Stein Quotes

I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made what I made.

"What is the answer?" [ I was silent ] "In that case, what is the question?"

One of the things that I have liked all these years is to be surrounded by people who know no english. It has left me more intensely alone with my eyes and my english. I do not know if it would have been possible to have english be so all in all to me otherwise. And they none of them could read a word I wrote, most of them did not even know that I did write. No, I like living with so very many people and being all alone with english and myself.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

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.

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.

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

Cloudiness what is cloudiness, is it a lining, is it a roll, is it melting.

Let me repeat what history teaches. History teaches.

Whenever you get there, there is no there there.

replacing a casual aquaintance with an ordinary daughter does not make a son.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

After all anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high. Anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. That is what makes a people, makes their kind of looks, their kind of thinking, their subtlety and their stupidity, and their eating and their drinking and their language.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

The seam in between is fenceless.