Quotes by Gertrude Stein
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. History
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. Art
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no...
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
History takes time. History makes memory.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
It is very easy to love alone.
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
