Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

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

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

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

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

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