Quotes by Gertrude Stein

“I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.”

“The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting”

“Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.”

You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you dont danceSo you might as welldance.

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.

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

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

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

A FEATHER.A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

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

It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,

It is very easy to love alone.

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. He never said anything. She was afraid then, she was one needing charming stories and happy telling of them and not having that thing she was always trembling.