Gertrude Stein Quotes
One does not get better, but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
I am because my little dog knows me.
What is the answer?… [Silence]… In that case, what is the question?
I do want to get rich, but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
I never wanted to be a hero, but on the other hand I am not anxious to cultivate cowardice.
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War.nd so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.
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.
In America there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
A Rose is a rose, is a rose, is a rose.
Remarks are not literature.
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.