Gertrude Stein Quotes

It is very easy to love alone.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

If you can do it then why do it?

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

I do want to get rich, but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

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

History takes time. History makes memory.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

We are always the same age inside.

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

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

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

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.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.