Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting. Gertrude Stein More Quotes by Gertrude Stein More Quotes From Gertrude Stein Two things are always the same the dance and war. Gertrude Stein two-things war two A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war. Gertrude Stein nice hero war No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight. Gertrude Stein innocence delight But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people. They talk about cutting off the heads of the grosses têtes but now we know that there will be other grosses têtes and the will be all the same. Gertrude Stein democracies-have cutting government I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein gertrude ifs Every man is the maker of his own fortune Gertrude Stein makers fortune men It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion. Gertrude Stein pay men people It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling. Gertrude Stein conflict certain remember I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. Gertrude Stein pupils literature teacher I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. Gertrude Stein literature time believe Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I Gertrude Stein understanding whole doe The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is. Gertrude Stein doe reality america To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing. Gertrude Stein frightened likes life-is Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are Gertrude Stein ugly selfish men French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything. Gertrude Stein good-fighting fighting people A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. Gertrude Stein masterpiece may dull F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation. Gertrude Stein scott-fitzgerald generations lasts it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing. Gertrude Stein new-york should-have sweet To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay. Gertrude Stein gay ends way But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style. Gertrude Stein courses style philosophy
