American - Author | February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946
Remarks are not literature.
Gertrude Stein
LiteratureRemarks
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
ActionReactionEqualOpposite
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
FragranceAdaptFranceMustOneself
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
RealityHumanTwoThingsInterested
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
SaidSheQuestionAnswerJustThen
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
YouImportantTakeFranceDidGave
There is no such thing as being good to your wife.
GoodWifeBeingYourThing
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
FailureEndNeedRealExcuseDoes
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
PatienceMoreNeverPatientWhoAm
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
NatureInterestingMoreImitation
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
MarriageReligionEndAbundance
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
WarForwardWalkingBackGoWay
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