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Gertrude Stein Quotes


In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

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

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

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 natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

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

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

It is very easy to love alone.

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

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.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

Let me listen to me and not to them.