Gertrude Stein Quotes

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

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

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

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

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

We are always the same age inside.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

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

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

One must dare to be happy.

There is no there there.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

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.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

Any time is the time to make a poem.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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