Quotes by Gertrude Stein
Money 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.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that every...
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud puddle.
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
There is no there there.
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
... the one thing that everybody wants is to be free, to talk to eat to drink to walk to think, to please, to wish, and to do it now.
Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and p...
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
As always art is the pulse of a nation.
There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows...
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
