There is no there there.
Gertrude Stein

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein

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

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.
Gertrude Stein

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein

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

Romance is everything.
Gertrude Stein

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
Gertrude Stein

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
Gertrude Stein

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Gertrude Stein

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein

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.
Gertrude Stein

A diary means yes indeed.
Gertrude Stein

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.
Gertrude Stein

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