The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. Gertrude Stein More Quotes by Gertrude Stein More Quotes From Gertrude Stein Action and reaction are equal and opposite. Gertrude Stein literatureoppositesaction Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. Gertrude Stein luxuryliteraturerose Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money. Gertrude Stein pocketsmoneyliterature If you can do it then why do it? Gertrude Stein you-can-do-itifscan-do I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school. Gertrude Stein creativitydogeducation Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five Gertrude Stein imaginationbrotherinteresting The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid. Gertrude Stein centuryeventsnature Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything. Gertrude Stein colorreallong There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life. Gertrude Stein characteristicspulseart The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. Gertrude Stein logicliteraturediscovery No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling. Gertrude Stein creatinglongart More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale. Gertrude Stein great-americanbuyersmarketing What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. Gertrude Stein marriageliteraturestones I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not. Gertrude Stein voteanimalsometimes In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is. Gertrude Stein united-statesspaceamerica Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. Gertrude Stein miseryliteraturewish Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet Gertrude Stein asparagusweatherart The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. Gertrude Stein difficultminutesmade Nothing has happened today except kindness. Gertrude Stein happenedkindnesstoday A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle. Gertrude Stein rapturedealscircles
