464 Quotes by Gertrude Stein

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth ...

Affectations can be dangerous.

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.