Quotes By Gertrude Stein

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

It is very easy to love alone.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

We are always the same age inside.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.