French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
GERTRUDE STEINFrench people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
GERTRUDE STEINArt is the pulse of a nation.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEINAnything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
GERTRUDE STEINWar is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
GERTRUDE STEINThere ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEINPoetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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 STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEINWhoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
GERTRUDE STEINIf 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 STEINI am I because my little dog knows me.
GERTRUDE STEIN