Gertrude Stein Quotes - Page 12

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.

It is funny about money. And it is funny about identity. You are you because your little dog knows you, but when your public knows you and does not want to pay for you and when your public knows you and does want to pay for you, you are not the same you.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

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

Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.

War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.

Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realising everything and every one comes out of them in repeating. More and more then every one comes to be clear to some one.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Remarks aren't literature.

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.

One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.