“ If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. Gertrude Stein
“ It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. Gertrude Stein
“ 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. Gertrude Stein
“ I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, whi… 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
“ 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
“ There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. Gertrude Stein
“ I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences. Gertrude Stein
“ I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient. Gertrude Stein
“ I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. Gertrude Stein
“ Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. Gertrude Stein
“ For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. Gertrude Stein
