The 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 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 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 STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change.
GERTRUDE STEINthere are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINYou attract what you need like a lover.
GERTRUDE STEINWar is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
GERTRUDE STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINA diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEINThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEINArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEIN