Gertrude Stein Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

Gertrude Stein quotes and sayings page 10 (deceased author born on Feb 3, 1874). Here's quote # 91 through 100 out of the 103 we have for her.

“Hemingway's remarks are not literature.”

“History takes time. History makes memory.”

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

“Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.”

“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”

“Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.”

“The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.”

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

“That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.”