Gertrude Stein

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

— Gertrude Stein

I am I because my little dog knows me.

— Gertrude Stein

You can either buy clothes or buy pictures,

— Gertrude Stein

There is no there there.

— Gertrude Stein

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

— Gertrude Stein

art is the pulse of a nation.

— Gertrude Stein

Romance is everything.

— Gertrude Stein

Too few is as many as too many.

— Gertrude Stein

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

— Gertrude Stein

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

— Gertrude Stein

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

— Gertrude Stein

The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.

— Gertrude Stein

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

— Gertrude Stein

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

— Gertrude Stein

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

— Gertrude Stein

This is the place of places and and it is here.

— Gertrude Stein

“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer.”

— Gertrude Stein

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

— Gertrude Stein

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get…

— Gertrude Stein

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and…

— Gertrude Stein

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take…

— Gertrude Stein

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve…

— Gertrude Stein

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what…

— Gertrude Stein

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero…

— Gertrude Stein

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one…

— Gertrude Stein

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not,…

— Gertrude Stein

I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come…

— Gertrude Stein

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much…

— Gertrude Stein

Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain…

— Gertrude Stein

“Think of anything, of cowboys, of movies, of detective stories, of anybody who goes anywhere or stays at home and is an…

— Gertrude Stein

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

“Our little ford was almost ready. She was later to be called Auntie after Gertrude Stein's aunt Pauline who always behaved admirably…

— Gertrude Stein

We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they…

— Gertrude Stein

“Sentences are made wonderfully one at a time. Who makes them. Nobody can make them because nobody can what ever they do…

— Gertrude Stein

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought…

— Gertrude Stein

Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It…

— Gertrude Stein

“One must not forget that the earth seen from an airplane is more splendid than the earth seen from an automobile. The…

— Gertrude Stein

The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none…

— Gertrude Stein

Some men and women are inquisitive about everything, they are always asking, if they see any one with anything they ask what…

— Gertrude Stein

“Doing something is interesting to some, if not any one is remembering that that thing has just been done. Doing something is…

— Gertrude Stein