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 More Quotes by Gertrude Stein More Quotes From Gertrude Stein The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no Gertrude Stein differences understanding men Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens. Gertrude Stein vote children thinking The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting. Gertrude Stein extended-family exhausting vacation Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime. Gertrude Stein done use In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody. Gertrude Stein confidence war country That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back. Gertrude Stein dancing literature war Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing Gertrude Stein understanding knowing mean The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. Gertrude Stein differences people art If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. Gertrude Stein half writing years Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them. Gertrude Stein breathing sleep believe A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining. Gertrude Stein curves glasses real Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat. Gertrude Stein interesting You attract what you need like a lover Gertrude Stein lovers needs You can either buy clothes or buy pictures. Gertrude Stein clothes I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing Gertrude Stein care knowing thinking You are all a lost generation. Gertrude Stein lost-generation generations lost Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary. Gertrude Stein baltimore once-upon-a-time Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates. Gertrude Stein spoons determination doors There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all. Gertrude Stein kings reason-why men I have been the creative literary mind of the century. Gertrude Stein century creative mind
