I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
“What is the answer?" [ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ] In that case, what is the question?” — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
“A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
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… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
