Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINBut the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
GERTRUDE STEINThe reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
GERTRUDE STEINWhen they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
GERTRUDE STEINConsidering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
GERTRUDE STEINThis joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
GERTRUDE STEINLove: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEINYou look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINToo few is as many as too many.
GERTRUDE STEINThere ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEIN