If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. Gertrude Stein More Quotes by Gertrude Stein More Quotes From Gertrude Stein Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics. Gertrude Stein realgivingthinking We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me Gertrude Stein collegesuccessmen A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time. Gertrude Stein indifferencecommunicationtime The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth. Gertrude Stein truthwaryears That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation. Gertrude Stein generationswarpeople Nature is not natural and that is natural enough. Gertrude Stein natureenoughnatural I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. Gertrude Stein literaturewantdesire "Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native. Gertrude Stein whitemeanthinking In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal. Gertrude Stein fragrancefranceliterature History takes time. History makes memory. Gertrude Stein literaturememorieshistory When you get there, there isn't any there there. Gertrude Stein zen-proverbtravel If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous. Gertrude Stein nervoushappensworry Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. Gertrude Stein unhappy-childhoodliteraturepeople I wish that I was where I am. Gertrude Stein self-respectself-esteemwish Remarks are not literature. Gertrude Stein remarksliteraturewriting A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation. Gertrude Stein contemporarygenerationsappearance To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare. Gertrude Stein geniuseasyway When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking. Gertrude Stein walkswalkingmuseums There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more. Gertrude Stein realliteraturereality 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-yourselfidentitybelieve
