One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer.… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not… — 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
It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or… — 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
