Quotes from Gertrude Stein

SUSIE ASADO Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea. Susie Asado. Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea. Susie Asado. Susie Asado which is a told tray sure. A lean on the shoe this means slips slips hers.

Act so that there is no use in a center.

Oh grammar is so fine.

Another thing that interested us enormously was how different the camouflage of the french looked from the camouflage of the germans, and then once we came across some very very neat camouflage and it was american. The idea was the same but as after all it was different nationalities who did it the difference was inevitable. The colour schemes were different, the designs were different, the way of placing them was different, it made plain the whole theory of art and its inevitability.

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer

No, she replied, you see I feel with my eyes and it does not make any difference to me what language I hear, I don't hear a language, I hear tones of voice and rhythms, but with my eyes I see words and sentences and there is for me only one language and that is english.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.

History takes time. History makes memory.

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Remarks are not literature.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.