Gertrude Stein

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine well together."

"A very great one is born the day they were born."

"One is not interested in being in a battle when one is not interested in being a battle."

"Every one is always interested in a person that belongs to them."

"One is not always sure of whether it is happening or has happened."

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

"It is so easy to go on being alive."

"I do not really think that anything one does matters very much."

"One can read and write without having been taught to do so."

"What is color is color and that is always the same."

"I am always doing something that has not yet been done before."

"America I am very much gratified by your interest in me."

"When you are successful it is not success."

"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you is dead."

"Remarks are not literature."

"I write for myself and strangers."

"There is no there there."

"A rose is a rose is a rose."

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

"I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do."

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

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

"Money is always there but the pockets change."

"When you make a thing, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly."

"Picasso is Picasso and Gertrude Stein is Gertrude Stein."

"The business of art is to reveal, not to explain."

"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing how many tricks the old dogs know."

"Aspiration is fine but it is so tiring."

"Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches."

"If nobody had told me I was a Jew I would have never known it."