Gertrude Stein Quotes

"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls"

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

"You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived"

"I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it."

"I think the reason I am important is that I know everything."

"It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken."

"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son."

"It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock."

"Let me listen to me and not to them."

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

"Remarks are not literature."

"Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air."

"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money."

"There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more."

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

"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son"

"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."

"There is no there there."