Quotes from Gertrude Stein

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

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

You have to know what you want to get it.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.