“A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. — 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
“A piece of crystal. A change, in a change that is remarkable there is no reason to say that there was a… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Sentences are made wonderfully one at a time. Who makes them. Nobody can make them because nobody can what ever they do… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
They were regular in being gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, they learned many little things that… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.” — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is… — 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
