Gertrude Stein Quotes

A rose is a rose is a rose.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

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

Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone.

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

In the beginning was the word. Man acts in words but each word has its history.

The present is always a moment you invent.

A sentence is a sentence is a sentence is a sentence. Not a sky not a sound not a single thing.

Literature is not simply an affair of words—it is a relationship of men and women to the world around them.

To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

The thing that differentiates life from great literature is expensibility.

Argument is to completely forget the question.

It must be nice to have a home-upbringing after a man grows up.

Any one who is too good to be true is.

American literature is experimental. Literature nine hundred and forty billion ground birds.

Literature is a fever for which there is neither cure nor recovery.

Business men are engaged in business the practice of separating civilised life from business life.

To write is to make yourself a disciplined lover.

Drink one drink every day then do what you can do.

Friendship is not free. Friendship is money.

Gertrude Stein Quotes part 2

Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt. Familiarity breeds common sense.

The thing to be in society today is to feel joy.

Literature happens in a state of imagination. If literature ceases to be imaginative it ceases to be.

The problem of imagination is not a problem of literature.

A writer should always have three writings. There should be a daily writing, a light writing and an apostolic writing.

Style is the relation to the effort of doing the best one can.

Every time the bay tree died there was a meadow.

All women need a lot of beautiful socks and extra socks.

Speech made in the patterns of letters becomes a charm, magic, an exercise of much practical imagination.

Every artist’s problem is in his desire for perfect reflection there is something lacking.

The greatest thing anyone can do is influence someone else.

Style can express in words that are never concepts the way other people see things.

It is not worth knowing what the sensibility of a word is unless you know how it is with you.

The day is the attribute of time and night belongs only to rest.

To have a mind is to have a word that is almost secret.

All directions are hesitate wait.

A person is a person in the way of feeling.

To live is to think.

If life is not fun it is not worth what you has made it.

There is no use trying to make a conversation when the people don’t know what each of the others don’t know.

The function of words of literature is to produce sensations that are inherent in the word itself.

Can you use the word ‘clean’ without thinking of ‘mean’ or ‘mean’ without thinking of ‘clean’?

There is something to be changed in a book that has lain on the shelf for twenty years.

The thing that makes a work of art is the pattern. Without pattern there is nothing.

A cow cow room room two cows in a room.

Literature starts by searching for the technique.

Arrivals and departures and faces and changes are rarely what they yield.

Anything you do wrong can be made up by giving it names of what it is not.

To desperate is not hopeful.