A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
GERTRUDE STEINA writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINWriting and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEINWhoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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 STEINNobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINFrom the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
GERTRUDE STEINBut 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?’
GERTRUDE STEINYou are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
GERTRUDE STEINArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change.
GERTRUDE STEINI could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to learn to do everything, even to die.
GERTRUDE STEINThis joy you feel is life.
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