Quotes by Gertrude Stein
Remarks are not literature.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Science
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is m...
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
A diary means yes indeed.
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. Politics
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
There is no such thing as being good to your wife.
