What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the question? Gertrude Stein More Quotes by Gertrude Stein More Quotes From Gertrude Stein One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. Gertrude Stein miracledoewriting It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. Gertrude Stein sirensindulge-ineye Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere. Gertrude Stein dogsometimesthinking there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them. Gertrude Stein waitinggivingthinking It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. Gertrude Stein populationprojectsliterature it is all the question of identity. ... As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside. Gertrude Stein identitydoelong The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them. Gertrude Stein charactermenthinking It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were. Gertrude Stein franceniceknows there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion. Gertrude Stein two-sidesfashionpeople Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree. Gertrude Stein angry-manmenfather It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night. Gertrude Stein sister-in-lawnightyears I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer. Gertrude Stein incometakenpeople Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. Gertrude Stein dictionaryrhymingliterature Too few is as many as too many. Gertrude Stein enough Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air. Gertrude Stein supportairtwo It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken. Gertrude Stein mistake I think the reason I am important is that I know everything. Gertrude Stein importantreasonthinking War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. Gertrude Stein literaturelostwar I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity. Gertrude Stein familiaritycontemptdoe A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. Gertrude Stein gardenvegetablesfood
