Gertrude Stein Quotes and Quotations
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is. The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other. When you get there, there isn't any there there. She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting. You have to learn to do everything, even to die. Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense. I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking. 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. There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. Nothing has happened today except kindness. 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. We are always the same age inside. Let me listen to me and not to them. One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. A rose is a rose is a rose. Let me listen to me and not to them. Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. 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.
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