From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
-
-
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
A diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I wish that I was where I am.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
GERTRUDE STEIN






