Gertrude Stein

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that…

Very likely education does not make very much difference…

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost…

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just…

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting…

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn’t make enough difference…

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream…

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work…

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all…

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone…

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition…

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women…

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that…

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut…

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation…