Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
GERTRUDE STEINI do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
GERTRUDE STEINA diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
GERTRUDE STEINOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
GERTRUDE STEINAnything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
GERTRUDE STEINThe only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
GERTRUDE STEINFrench people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEINOne must dare to be happy.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
GERTRUDE STEINArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEIN