I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It is funny about money. And it is funny about identity. You are you because your little dog knows you, but when… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I… — 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
"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
it is all the question of identity. ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains… — 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
