Gertrude Stein Quotes

"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."

Silent gratitude isn`t very much use to anyone.

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

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

We are always the same age inside.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

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

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.

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

There ain`t no answer. There ain`t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That`s the answer.

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