Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Gertrude Stein Quotes Click here for Gertrude Stein books Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein "Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume." "One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure." "Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches." "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." "When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream." "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." "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." "Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it." "All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra." "It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken." "Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood." "The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don’t understand." "A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style." "They were regular in being gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, they learned many little things that are things in being gay, they were gay every day, they were regular, they were gay, they were gay the same length of time every day, they were gay, they were quite regularly gay." "The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic." "Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said." "In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is." "And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made." "I dislike it when instead of saying Jew they say Hebrew or Israelite, or Semite, I do not like it and why should a Negro want to be called colored. Why should we want to lose being a Negro... I have stated that a noun to me is a stupid thing, if you know a thing and its name why bother about it but you have to know its name to talk about it. Well its name is Negro if it is a Negro and Jew if it is a Jew and both of them are nice strong names and so let us keep them." "But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people." "War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost." "The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." "Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious and they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are." "Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics." |
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