Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
GERTRUDE STEINForensics is eloquence and reduction.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
-
-
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEIN