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 More Quotes by Gertrude Stein More Quotes From Gertrude Stein This is the place of places and and it is here. Gertrude Stein I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient. Gertrude Stein patientliteraturepatience Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone. Gertrude Stein gratitudemotivationalinspirational There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance. Gertrude Stein repetition You have to know what you want to get it. Gertrude Stein goalwantinspirational 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. Gertrude Stein nicewritingbook The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything. Gertrude Stein dependsone-timedifferent If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation. Gertrude Stein dictationcreationifs It takes a heap of loafing to write a book. Gertrude Stein loafingwritingbook Let me listen to me and not to them. Gertrude Stein let-meself-esteemhealing It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. Gertrude Stein soothingdoehistory Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. Gertrude Stein hygienewritingsex Money is always there but the pockets change. Gertrude Stein pocketsmoneyfunny But the problem is that 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?' Gertrude Stein careersproblemmen The artist works by locating the world in himself Gertrude Stein artistworld Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question. Gertrude Stein scaredboredliterature If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. Gertrude Stein hillswalksliterature The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Gertrude Stein literaturedoescience There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing. Gertrude Stein depressingcountryfather I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity. Gertrude Stein simplicityrealsimple
