American - Author | February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
WishI WishBeingMustMiserOh
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
FamilyMenSayingSpeakProblemGo
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
AnimalRestSometimesVoteAlways
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
PoetryThingsSeenDictionary
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.
ConfidenceTimePeaceWarCountry
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.
FindingYouKnowLivingDifficult
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
RichWantNeverGet
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
LuckBadBad LuckDeepestConviction
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
BusinessKnowImportantYour
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
PoliticsNeverAnswerBeenGonna
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
AlwaysFriendlyJustWhoForeigner
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Gertrude Stein quotes