The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time. Gertrude Stein More Quotes by Gertrude Stein More Quotes From Gertrude Stein One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say. Gertrude Stein heardsaidloss In America, everybody is, but some are more than others. Gertrude Stein united-statesamerica I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany. Gertrude Stein elementsstrugglemean If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything. Gertrude Stein starsdogmen The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in. Gertrude Stein motherwarcountry It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover. Gertrude Stein loversself-esteemneeds Remarks aren't literature. Gertrude Stein remarkscraftsliterature A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is Gertrude Stein dreamsleepnight One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. Gertrude Stein opinionbelieveworld I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober. Gertrude Stein soberdrunkdone there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that. Gertrude Stein moneywritingsweet Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression. Gertrude Stein expressionanimalcountry Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns Gertrude Stein crazymoneyorder What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man. Gertrude Stein growing-upmenboys When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same. Gertrude Stein differencesmoneysound A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. Gertrude Stein realdoeneeds A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town. Gertrude Stein literaturehousecountry Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it. Gertrude Stein usedmoneyeasy More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money. Gertrude Stein moneyanimalmen When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth. Gertrude Stein pocketsmoneymean
