Gertrude Stein

“One must dare to be happy.”

“We are always the same age inside.”

“In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.”

“The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.”

“One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.”

“Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

“I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.”

“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.”

“A rose is a rose is a rose.”

“Let me listen to me and not to them.”

“Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.”

“I am because my little dog knows me.”

“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”

“If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.”

“I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.”

“You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.”

“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between th...”

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

“I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing”