Gertrude Stein Quotes

She said he was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

Two things are always the same the dance and war.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere because they think of everybody else as native.

Disillusionment in living is the finding out nobody agrees with you . . . Complete disillusionment is when you realise that no one can for they can’t change.

Pigeons on the grass alas.

He had added to his stories a little story of meditations and in these he said that The Enormous Room was the greatest book he had ever read. It was then that Gertrude Stein said, Hemingway, remarks are not literature.

You are all a lost generation.

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.