Interested Telling Quotes by Gertrude Stein

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

— Gertrude Stein

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

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

“When is there some discharge when. There never is.”

— Gertrude Stein

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

— Gertrude Stein

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

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

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

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

— Gertrude Stein

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

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

— Gertrude Stein

“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

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