Gertrude Stein > Quotes

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
― Gertrude Stein

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

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
― Gertrude Stein

“You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don't dance
So you might as well
dance.”
― Gertrude Stein

“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.”
― Gertrude Stein

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“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.”
― Gertrude Stein

“There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
There's your answer.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Let me listen to me and not to them.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”
― Gertrude Stein

“If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”
― Gertrude Stein

“For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”
― Gertrude Stein

“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“You attract what you need like a lover”
― 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, Three Lives & Tender Buttons

“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”
― Gertrude Stein

“You are all a lost generation.”
― Gertrude Stein

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“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. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“You have to know what you want to get it.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous”
― Gertrude Stein

“Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.”
― Gertrude Stein

“You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!”
― Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography

“America is my country, and Paris is my home town.”
― Gertrude Stein

“When I go around and speak on campuses,
I still don't get young men standing up and saying,
How can I combine career and family?”
― Gertrude Stein

“She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”
― Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas