An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINI am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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 STEINWar is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINI like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINArt is the pulse of a nation.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINYou’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEINThere are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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 STEINSilent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
GERTRUDE STEIN