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“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
― Gertrude Stein

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

“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 the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting...

It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”
― Gertrude Stein

“it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.”
― gertrude stein

“I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing”
― Gertrude Stein, Three Lives / Tender Buttons

“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous”
― Gertrude Stein

“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”
― Gertrude Stein

“A FEATHER.

A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don't dance
So you might as well
dance.”
― Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“You attract what you need like a lover”
― Gertrude Stein

“Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.”
― Gertrude Stein

“You have to know what you want to get it.”
― Gertrude Stein

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”
― Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

“If you can do it then why do it?”
― Gertrude Stein

“You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!”
― Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography

“It is a very strange feeling when one is loving a clock that is to every one of your class of living an ugly and a foolish one and one really likes such a thing and likes it very much and liking it is a serious thing, or one likes a colored handkerchief that is very gay and every one of your kind of living thinks it a very ugly or a foolish thing and thinks you like it because it is a funny thing to like it and you like it with a serious feeling, or you like eating something that is a dirty thing and no one can really like that thing or you write a book and while you write it you are ashamed for every one must think you a silly or a crazy one and yet you write it and you are ashamed, you know you will be laughed at or pitied by every one and you have a queer feeling and you are not very certain and you go on writing. Then someone says yes to it, to something you are liking, or doing or making and then never again can you have completely such a feeling of being afraid and ashamed that you had then when you were writing or liking the thing and not any one had said yes about the thing.”
― Gertrude Stein

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
There's your answer.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Affectations can be dangerous.”
― Gertrude Stein

“If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.”
― Gertrude Stein

“There is no there there.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“The one thing that everybody wants is to be free...not to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free, the word discipline, and forbidden and investigated and imprisoned brings horror and fear into all hearts, they do not want to be afraid not more than is necessary in the ordinary business of living where one has to earn one's living and has to fear want and disease and death....The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.

~ September, 1943”
― Gertrude Stein

“What is the answer?"
[ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ]
In that case, what is the question?”
― Gertrude Stein

“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.”
― Gertrude Stein