Forensics is eloquence and reduction. Gertrude Stein More Quotes by Gertrude Stein More Quotes From Gertrude Stein And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself. Gertrude Stein being-yourself identity believe August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot. Gertrude Stein august hot weather Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. Gertrude Stein plastic-flowers flower literature It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock. Gertrude Stein sadness literature friendly It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated. Gertrude Stein defeated loses winning [On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not. Gertrude Stein village excellent pounds 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. Gertrude Stein cases answers said If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do. Gertrude Stein language use way Art isn't everything. It's just about everything. Gertrude Stein art-is art it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding. Gertrude Stein peaceful succeed success One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between Gertrude Stein differences different doe Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial. Gertrude Stein thoughtful differences thinking ... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war. Gertrude Stein done war history What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there. Gertrude Stein oakland use writing When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream. Gertrude Stein bed dream sleep There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is. Gertrude Stein cutting war 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. Gertrude Stein funny father son One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all. Gertrude Stein young-generation war thinking There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning. Gertrude Stein beginnings-and-endings ends What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. Gertrude Stein passion literature country