More - Gertrude Stein Quotes

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

Gertrude Stein

 American Author Common Sense

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

Gertrude Stein

 American Author Common Sense

What was the use of my having come from Oakland, it was not natural to have come from there, yes, write about it if I like or anything, if I like, but not there, there is no there there

Gertrude Stein

 

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Gertrude Stein

 Reality

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

Gertrude Stein

 American Author

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

 American Author Beginning

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

Gertrude Stein

 American Author

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.

Gertrude Stein

 Strangers

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Gertrude Stein

 Philosophy

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Gertrude Stein

 American Author Art