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.

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.