“Very likely education does not make very much difference.”
Education
“What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.”
MusicAll Quotes by Gertrude Stein
“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“An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.”
Work“We are always the same age inside.”
Age“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“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
Friendship“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”
Politics“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”
War“But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'”
Family“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”
Failure“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“History takes time. History makes memory.”
History“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”
Nature“Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.”
Family“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“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 extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.”
Family“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“Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.”
Women“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