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

Quote by Gertrude Stein

Topics: Gertrude Stein Quotes

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

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

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

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is....

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is....

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is...

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is...

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just...

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just...

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the...

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the...

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does...

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does...

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

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

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets...

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets...

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

It is very easy to love alone.

It is very easy to love alone.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be...

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be...