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
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero… — 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
... 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
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go… — 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
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
Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is… — 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
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem… — 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
