Gertrude Stein Quotes

Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realizing everything and every one comes out of them in repeating. More and more then every one comes to be clear to some one.

At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer.

Kiss my lips. She did.
Kiss my lips again she did.
Kiss my lips over and over and over again she did.

You attract what you need like a lover

A rose is a rose is a rose.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

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.

America is my country, and Paris is my home town.

You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don't dance. So you might as well dance.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet