3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein 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.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein 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?’
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein 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.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn’t make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
