Gertrude Stein

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

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

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

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

You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance.

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

I am because my little dog knows me.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

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

A rose is a rose is a rose.

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

Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.

Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

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

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.