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
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway… — 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
There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. — 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
it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra. — 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
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they… — 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
