Gertrude Stein
Nature is not natural and that is natural enough.Collection: Nature
Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.Collection: Dog
Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerousCollection: Dangerous
It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.Collection: Struggle
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.Collection: Time
there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.Collection: Sweet
Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.Collection: Country
Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.Collection: Real
I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany.Collection: Struggle
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.Collection: Mother
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.Collection: Drunk
Near a war is always not very near.Collection: War
"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.Collection: Mean
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.Collection: Worry
Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.Collection: Once Upon A Time
there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.Collection: Art
There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.Collection: Kings
Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.Collection: Dog
The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.Collection: Vacation
... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.Collection: Time
I have been the creative literary mind of the century.Collection: Creative
Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.Collection: Dog
When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.Collection: Museums
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.Collection: War
Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.Collection: Water
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing.Collection: Romance
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.Collection: Romance