Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINRelated Topics

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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 STEINThis joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
GERTRUDE STEINYou look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
GERTRUDE STEINI 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 STEINWhat is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINA little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the place of places and and it is here.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEIN