Gertrude Stein

"A rose is a rose is a rose."

"There is no there there."

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

"You are all a lost generation."

"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you then say you are and not it."

"If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

"I have no sense of time, and I find it hard to plan for anything."

"The difference between me and my characters is that I write about people who are real."

"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is."

"Confusion is just a word we use for an order that we don't yet understand."

"We are always the same age inside."

"Remarks are not literature."

"What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?"

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

"Action is not necessarily something blood it could be something of mystery it could be something quiet."

"I dream a world but that is very different now, we have not a world."

"Anything one does every day is important and becomes a real part of you."

"I write for myself and strangers."

"There ought to be something sweet that flows over."

"A writer should write with fluency the things that are so important to you."

"One cannot come back too often to the things that matter, to really have them matter."

"Suppose no one paid any attention to that sophie."

"The way to know about being American is to know about beauty."

"She had a feeling that to be right might not be altogether pleasant."

"I never stopped to think, I just wrote."

"In writing, in the expression of what one thinks, there must be logic and there must be rhythm."

"Money is always there but the pockets change."

"I like to read about things I have never experienced."

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"As long as I am alive I will try to make the world what I want it to be."