Post by Elle Rush on Nov 16, 2005 15:15:17 GMT -5
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
Gertrude Stein
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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
Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
Gertrude Stein
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Gertrude Stein
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein
If you can do it then why do it?
Gertrude Stein
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
Gertrude Stein
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
Gertrude Stein
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
Gertrude Stein
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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
Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
Gertrude Stein
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Gertrude Stein
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein
If you can do it then why do it?
Gertrude Stein
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
Gertrude Stein
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
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.
Gertrude Stein
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
Gertrude Stein
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude Stein