Gertrude Stein Quotes - Page 7

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

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.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Affectations can be dangerous.

Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.