There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“She says it is a good thing to have no sense of how it is done in the things that amuse you.… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Family living can go on existing. Very many are remembering this thing are remembering that family living living can go on existing.… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“It is a very strange feeling when one is loving a clock that is to every one of your class of living… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“The one thing that everybody wants is to be free...not to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of… — 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
