Gertrude Stein

"What is the difference between one word and another word? There is a difference."

"Wars are made to make people forget and we want them to remember."

"That is what I do, I tell what I know."

"Remarks are not literature."

"I always say that if you are not pleasing yourself, then you are not pleasing anybody."

"Water is water"

"Clothes and religion, that is what interests people."

"Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

"Reason prevents one from saying what one means."

"The American language is the language in which things are new."

"I do not mind if they do not like it, of course, but I love it."

"Flirtation is just another word for attention."

"As long as there are stones and bones, there will be history."

"Being bored is not interesting."

"In writing, in the way I write, the protagonist is always the world."

"Knowledge is a thing that one knows."

"The world is round, and the point of going around the world is somewhere else."

"If you write for yourself you write yourself as you are."

"Beauty is not a thing, it is a way."

"Time and identity, these are the questions."

"Peace is more important than justice because there is no justice without peace."

"Everything is the same, but different."

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing."

"Expressing oneself is not a selfish thing."

"The question of the usefulness of poetry is something one does not think about."

"All this I know but it is not interesting."

"Forgetting is something that time does, not memory."

"One learns one's technique and then one does it."

"The pleasure of writing is the pleasure of making something."

"Truth is like archaeology, you have to dig for it."