In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is. - Gertrude Stein
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. - Gertrude Stein
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. - Gertrude Stein
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. - Gertrude Stein
The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, there isn't any there there. - Gertrude Stein
Money is always there, but the pockets change. - Gertrude Stein
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do. - Gertrude Stein
It is very easy to love alone. - Gertrude Stein
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame. - Gertrude Stein
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone. - Gertrude Stein
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. - Gertrude Stein
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle. - Gertrude Stein
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is. - Gertrude Stein
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. - Gertrude Stein
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein
We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs. - Gertrude Stein
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound) - Gertrude Stein
We are always the same age inside. - Gertrude Stein
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book. - Gertrude Stein
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do. - Gertrude Stein