Gertrude Stein Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”

“You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.”

“One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”

“A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.”

“I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.”

“One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.”

“I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.”

“If you can do it then why do it?”

“I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.”

“Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.”