Gertrude Stein

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

— Gertrude Stein

One must dare to be happy.

— Gertrude Stein

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

— Gertrude Stein

“The seam in between is fenceless.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Wake a question. Eat an instant, answer”

— Gertrude Stein

Let me listen to me and not to them.

— Gertrude Stein

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

— Gertrude Stein

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

— Gertrude Stein

“How prettily we swim. Not in water, not on land, but in love.”

— Gertrude Stein

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

— Gertrude Stein

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

— Gertrude Stein

“Love is the skillful audacity required to share an inner life”

— Gertrude Stein

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.

— Gertrude Stein

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

— Gertrude Stein

Whoever said money cant buy happiness didnt know where to shop

— Gertrude Stein

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

— Gertrude Stein

Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear,…

— Gertrude Stein

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it…

— Gertrude Stein

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

— Gertrude Stein

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

— Gertrude Stein

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

“What is the answer?" [ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ] In that case, what is the question?”

— Gertrude Stein

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must…

— Gertrude Stein

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

— Gertrude Stein

I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I…

— Gertrude Stein

It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there…

— Gertrude Stein

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals…

— Gertrude Stein

The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and…

— Gertrude Stein

To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was…

— Gertrude Stein

I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your…

— Gertrude Stein

There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this…

— Gertrude Stein

If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can…

— Gertrude Stein

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

— Gertrude Stein

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

— Gertrude Stein

it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.

— Gertrude Stein

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

— Gertrude Stein

“So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use.”

— Gertrude Stein

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

— Gertrude Stein

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

— Gertrude Stein

The artist works by locating the world in himself

— Gertrude Stein