Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEINSilent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
GERTRUDE STEINEvery day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
GERTRUDE STEINI wish that I was where I am.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEINThe first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
GERTRUDE STEINFor a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
GERTRUDE STEIN