“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
Art
“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.”
PoetryAll Quotes by Gertrude Stein
“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
History“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.”
War“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”
Politics“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.”
Science“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.”
Business“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
Technology“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”
Hope“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.”
Work“The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.”
Money“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.”
Marriage“It is very easy to love alone.”
Alone“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.”
Death“Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.”
Women“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”
Failure“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
Art“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.”
Poetry“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”
Nature“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
Peace“It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.”
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