464 Quotes by Gertrude Stein

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

Kiss my lips. She did. Kiss my lips again she did. Kiss my lips over and over and over again she did.

This is the place of places and and it is here.

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.