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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.Collection: Gertrude
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.Collection: Gertrude
There is no such thing as being good to your wife.Collection: Gertrude
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.Collection: Gertrude
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.Collection: Gertrude
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.Collection: Gertrude
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.Collection: Gertrude
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.Collection: Gertrude
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.Collection: Gertrude
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.Collection: Gertrude
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.Collection: Gertrude
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.Collection: Gertrude
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.Collection: Gertrude
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.Collection: Gertrude
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.Collection: Gertrude
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.Collection: Gertrude
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.Collection: Gertrude
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.Collection: Gertrude
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.Collection: Gertrude
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.Collection: Gertrude
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.Collection: Gertrude
A house in the country is not the same as a country house.Collection: Gertrude
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.Collection: Gertrude
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.Collection: Gertrude
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'Collection: Gertrude
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.Collection: Gertrude
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.Collection: Gertrude
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.Collection: Gertrude
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.Collection: Gertrude
I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.Collection: Gertrude
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.Collection: Gertrude
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.Collection: Gertrude
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.Collection: Gertrude
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.Collection: Gertrude
[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.Collection: Gertrude
Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.Collection: Gertrude
I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.Collection: Gertrude
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.Collection: Gertrude
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowlyCollection: Gertrude
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]Collection: Gertrude