Gertrude Stein

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time. ”

History takes time. History makes memory. ”

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. ”

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. ”

We are always the same age inside. ”

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. ”

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody. ”

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. ”

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. ”

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work. ”