Quotes By 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.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

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

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

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?'

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.