Gertrude Stein Quotes

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

I am because my little dog knows me.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

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

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.