Quotes by Gertrude Stein

“Nature and man are opposed in Spain.”

“Light tomorrow with today.”

“At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.”

“I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.”

“A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)”

“nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the wa...”

“We are always the same age inside. ”

“If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”

“A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.”

“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”

“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.”

“I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.”

“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”

“What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.”

“It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.”

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

“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?'”

“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”

“This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.”

“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”