Gertrude Stein

"Nothing changes from generation to generation except the things seen and the things seen are the same thing."

"One is always too blind or too much absorbed to really notice existence."

"Gertrude Stein's legacy lies in her revolutionary approach to language."

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

"There is no there there."

"Picasso once remarked that I was the only one in the twentieth century who understood him."

"A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."

"If it can be done, why do it?"

"Genius is in approach. Madness is in details."

"Money is always there, but the pockets change."

"Everybody gets younger every year. That is the only way I can account for the fact that I am always finding more and more friends."

"It is nice to have accomplishments and to know about them, but the real thing is always to have a kind of overflow of feeling that is always ready to come out."

"One cannot live only on memories."

"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you were."

"I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an afterthought."

"Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."

"How to win friends and influence people, that is what everybody wants to know."

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

"You look at me as though I were strange, yet I assure you this is not strange at all."

"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph."

"In these days a man is who he says he is."

"I made a mistake, let us start over again."

"Art is the creation of new things, and the making of them new."

"To go on in this way is the real way to live."

"There is no answer, and I am an answer."

"If you cannot do it, sometimes no one else can do it."

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

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."

"The contemporary thing in art is the thing that makes today today."

"One must always be a-quiver with new interests."