Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. Gertrude Stein More Quotes by Gertrude Stein More Quotes From Gertrude Stein 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. Gertrude Stein earthwould-beworld I love my love with a b because she is peculiar. Gertrude Stein peculiar More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating. Gertrude Stein regularitythese-daysadventure We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs. Gertrude Stein jobsmentwo The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better. Gertrude Stein functionmatterart This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. Gertrude Stein repetitionlessonsliterature There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found. Gertrude Stein languagefoundnatural Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. Gertrude Stein caredoelong Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating? Gertrude Stein mindpeopleworld each generation has something different at which they are all looking. Gertrude Stein generationsdifferent Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. Gertrude Stein revolutionaryliteraturedream I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without. Gertrude Stein familyshadowdoubt To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. Gertrude Stein writing Adventure is making the distant approach nearer Gertrude Stein where-you-areromanceadventure You never answer a question nobody does. Gertrude Stein answersdoe I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me. Gertrude Stein feelingswayinteresting How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it. Gertrude Stein asks The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that. Gertrude Stein crazywarpeople One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know. Gertrude Stein answersknowsknowledge If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire. Gertrude Stein oceanfishingdesire
