Quotes by Gertrude Stein

“What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.”

“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”

“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 peop...”

“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”

“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”

“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”

“The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.”

“Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.”

“Romance is everything.”

“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.”

“Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.”

“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.”

“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.”

“In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.”

“The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.”

“When you get there there isn't any there there.”

“You have to learn to do everything even to die.”

“One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.”

“She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”

“Nothing has happened today except kindness.”