Gertrude Stein Professions : Writer Born : February 3, 1874 Died : July 27, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 364 quotes by Gertrude Stein Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein technology inspirational knowledge Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life. Gertrude Stein miracle joy morning Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life. Gertrude Stein skillful audacity share You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance. Gertrude Stein ridiculous might looks Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup. Gertrude Stein being-yourself coffee real You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary! Gertrude Stein self-discovery extraordinary limits There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning. Gertrude Stein winning success men I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer. Gertrude Stein has-beens answers sound You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come. Gertrude Stein writing discovery thinking There is no there there. Gertrude Stein One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. Gertrude Stein get-better maturity doe 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. Gertrude Stein strong men funny Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful. Gertrude Stein beautiful happiness life A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. Gertrude Stein eye creative writing It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business Gertrude Stein simplicity important business art is the pulse of a nation. Gertrude Stein art-is pulse art An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work. Gertrude Stein audience literature I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do. Gertrude Stein want feelings Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop Gertrude Stein inspirational life funny It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. Gertrude Stein philosophical women time Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
