Quotes from Gertrude Stein

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.

Near a war is always not very near.

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

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

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

I am Rose my eyes are blueI am Rose and who are youI am Rose and when I singI am Rose like anything.

Think of the Bible and Homer think of Shakespeare and think of me.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

[Ezra Pound] was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

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

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.This is what makes America what it is.