A 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 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 STEINNothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
GERTRUDE STEINA diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the place of places and and it is here.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
GERTRUDE STEINI like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINHow likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
GERTRUDE STEINIs it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINArt isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEINThere ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEIN