“History takes time. History makes memory.”
History
“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
ArtAll Quotes by Gertrude Stein
“Very likely education does not make very much difference.”
Education“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.”
Work“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“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.”
Alone“I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.”
Funny“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”
Patience“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
Art“It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.”
Future“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.”
Funny“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
History“It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.”
Funny“Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.”
Women“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
Friendship“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“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.”
Business“The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.”
Money“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“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”
Nature“We are always the same age inside.”
Age