Gertrude Stein Quotes

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.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

Too few is as many as too many.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’

Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.