Gertrude Stein: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.”

“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”

“it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.”

“Let me listen to me and not to them”

“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”

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

“You attract what you need like a lover”

“For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.”

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.”

“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”

“You have to know what you want to get it.”

“America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be.”

“You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.”

“You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!”

“You are all a lost generation.”

“It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.”

“I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing”

“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?”

“She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”