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…

— Gertrude Stein

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it…

— 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…

— 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…

— Gertrude Stein

Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Gertrude Stein

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have…

— Gertrude Stein

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

— Gertrude Stein

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

— Gertrude Stein

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought…

— Gertrude Stein

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

— Gertrude Stein

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so…

— Gertrude Stein

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and…

— Gertrude Stein

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

— Gertrude Stein

Nature is not natural and that is natural enough.

— Gertrude Stein

This is the place of places and and it is here.

— Gertrude Stein