Gertrude Stein Quotes & Sayings

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

“Romance is everything.”

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

“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 people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.”

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”

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

“We are always the same age inside.”

“America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”

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

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