Quotes from Gertrude Stein

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

What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question

What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the question?

We are always the same age inside.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

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

If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

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

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup

Let me listen to me and not to them.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

You attract what you need like a lover

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

You have to know what you want to get it.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.