All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra. — 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
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. — 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
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs…… — 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
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
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
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
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from… — 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
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)
