464 Quotes by Gertrude Stein

They think they are interested about the atomic bomb but they really are not not any more than I am. Really not. They may be a little scared, I am not so scared, there is so much to be scared of so what is the use of bothering to be scared, and if you are not scared the atomic bomb is not interesting.Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

I take back all the harsh things I said about your writing. It makes a picture and that is always good. But it is alright to learn to play Bach in writing too.

If red is in everything it is not necessary. Is that not an argument for any use of it and even so is there any place that is better, is there any place that has so much stretched out.

Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realising everything and every one comes out of them in repeating. More and more then every one comes to be clear to some one.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.