The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
-
-
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I am I because my little dog knows me.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
there 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 STEIN -
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEIN






