It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
-
-
This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Romance is everything.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
One must dare to be happy.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
GERTRUDE STEIN