Quotes by Gertrude Stein

Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.

There aint no answer. There aint gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. Thats the answer.

A rose is a rose is a rose.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

We are always the same age inside.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

I am because my little dog knows me.

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

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

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

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

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

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

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

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still dont get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family?