you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Some men and women are inquisitive about everything, they are always asking, if they see any one with anything they ask what… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous. — 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
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
More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I really do know that it can be done and if it can be done why do it... — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they… — 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
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
I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer.… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“What is the answer?" [ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ] In that case, what is the question?” — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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