Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINI am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
GERTRUDE STEINThe way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
GERTRUDE STEINArt is the pulse of a nation.
GERTRUDE STEINThere ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
GERTRUDE STEINI have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEINA creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINIs it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINNobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
GERTRUDE STEIN