Quotes By Gertrude Stein

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

It is very easy to love alone.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

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 adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

We are always the same age inside.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

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.

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

But the problem is that 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?'

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.