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. ”

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. ”

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. ”

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. ”

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. ”

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. ”

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ”

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. ”

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. ”

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. ”