I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
~ Gertrude Stein

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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
~ Gertrude Stein

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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
~ Gertrude Stein

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Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.
~ Gertrude Stein

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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
~ Gertrude Stein

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All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation. …
You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.
~ Gertrude Stein

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Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer?
~ Gertrude Stein

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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
~ Gertrude Stein

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

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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.
~ Gertrude Stein

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