Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINIn America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the place of places and and it is here.
GERTRUDE STEINWe are always the same age inside.
GERTRUDE STEINOne does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
GERTRUDE STEINLadies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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 STEINA very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINForensics is eloquence and reduction.
GERTRUDE STEINA creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINI do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEIN