How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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The 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.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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We are always the same age inside.
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