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 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
“twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.” — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very… — 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
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world… [ellipsis in source] He was always… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
They were regular in being gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, they learned many little things that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Sentences are made wonderfully one at a time. Who makes them. Nobody can make them because nobody can what ever they do… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“A piece of crystal. A change, in a change that is remarkable there is no reason to say that there was a… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around. — 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
![“Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world… [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street… He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical…” quote by Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/951/gertrude-stein-667_artificial_sinclair-lewis-is-the-perfect-example-of_298744.jpg)
