Gertrude Stein Quotes

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.
Gertrude Stein
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers dear Readers are an afterthought.
Gertrude Stein
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
Gertrude Stein
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
I am because my little dog knows me.
Gertrude Stein
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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A rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.
Gertrude Stein
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
A rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.
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.
Gertrude Stein
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
Gertrude Stein
Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
Gertrude Stein
She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
Gertrude Stein
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
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You have to learn to do everything even to die.
Gertrude Stein
When you get there there isn't any there there.
Gertrude Stein
The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
Gertrude Stein
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein
A 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 Stein
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen.
Gertrude Stein
The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection of the objects he has put into his pictures and he lives in the reflections of his pictures, a writer, a serious writer, conceives himself as existing by and in himself, he does not at all live in the reflection of his books, to write he must first of all exist in himself, but for a painter to be able to paint, the painting must first of all be done.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
Gertrude Stein
At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.
Gertrude Stein
Nature and man are opposed in Spain.
Gertrude Stein
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)
Gertrude Stein
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
Gertrude Stein