I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there… — 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
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must… — 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