Gertrude Stein

"I kept saying all the time that I liked the acting it had in itself."

"It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you yearn for seizes you."

"Nothing is always and everything is always."

"When this you see remember me."

"The way to know about anything is to know about the history of it."

"Disillusionment in living is the finding out nobody agrees with you not those that love you even though they love you."

"I always say that if you hear a bell ringing or a telephone ringing it makes you nervous and then I say well then do not hear it."

"Shut up he explained."

"She had a good time and then some."

"A nurse is a nurse and a patient is a patient."

"Everything in life is repetition and that is a strange thing to say."

"I am no longer interested in cause and effect."

"I love all these people, really I love all of them."

"The only thing that keeps one writing is that one has not yet said what one wishes to say."

"Being American is to me the best thing that can happen to anyone."

"It's funny when you think you're a particular person you're wrong."

"Very many people have come to live in the country with the result that the country is not living."

"I used to think that poetry was what is said and prose was what is written."

"Something is always happening everywhere always."

"You always think of something once you are not thinking of it."

"I tell him he is a fool but he does not pay any attention to me."

"Hands are a sore subject with me and I do not like to see mine or anyone else's hands."

"One of my long cherished desires is to be a painter."

"The time when time was young."

"People are always interested in the future but nobody is interested in the past."

"She held my hand and my heart was not moved but my eyes began to open."

"What is the use of being alive if you don't mind the living."

"Why is it that in this country it is not better to be dead."

"America took him away and Europe spat him out."

"I wanted to be older and I wanted to be a younger one."