Gertrude Stein

36 quotes

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

Gertrude Stein

"F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation."

Gertrude Stein

"The only thing left for a creative artist to do is to do his chosen work in spite of everything and regardless of anything because when living draws to its end there are no excuses he can make to himself or to anyone else for not having done it. Either he did do it or he did not do it and very often he did not. Alas, very often he did not."

Gertrude Stein

"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."

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

"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

"Let me listen to me and not to them."

Gertrude Stein

"Romance is everything."

Gertrude Stein

"Once upon a time a man dragged his father from their house and as they reached a tree his father cried Stop! I did not drag my own father past this tree!"

Gertrude Stein

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

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

"Nobody knows what I am trying to do, but I do, and I know when I succeed."

Gertrude Stein

"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation."

Gertrude Stein

"You should only read what is truly good or frankly bad."

Gertrude Stein

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

Gertrude Stein

"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is."

Gertrude Stein

"As a cousin of mine once said about money, 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 day about money."

Gertrude Stein

"As a cousin of mine once said about money, 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 day about money."

Gertrude Stein

"As a cousin of mine once said about money, 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 day about money."

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

"The only thing left for a creative artist to do is to do his chosen work in spite of everything and regardless of anything because when living draws to its end there are no excuses he can make to himself or to anyone else for not having done it. Either he did do it or he did not do it and very often he did not. Alas, very often he did not."

Gertrude Stein

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

Gertrude Stein

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

Gertrude Stein

"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is."

Gertrude Stein

"You should only read what is truly good or frankly bad."

Gertrude Stein