Gertrude Stein Quotations | Page 4

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

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

I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money ...

When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

Nature is not natural and that is natural enough.

In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

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

The artist works by locating the world in himself

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

There is no there there.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

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.

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

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.

You have to know what you want to get it.

One must dare to be happy.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

A diary means yes indeed.

If a thing can be done, why do it?

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

You are all a lost generation.

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.

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

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

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

We are always the same age inside.

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

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

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.

Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's 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.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.