Gertrude Stein

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

A light white, a disgras, an ink spot, a rosy charm.

Wake a question. Eat an instant, answer

There was a man who was always writing to his daughter that she should not do things that were wrong that would disgrace him, she should not do such things and in every letter that he wrote to her he told her she should not do such things, that he was her father and was giving good moral advice to her and always he wrote to her in every letter that she should not do things that she should not do anything that would disgrace him. He wrote this in every letter he wrote to her, he wrote very nicely to her, he wrote often enough to her and in every letter he wrote to her that she should not do anything that was a disgraceful thing for her to be doing and then once she wrote back to him that he had not any right to write moral things in letters to her, that he had taught her that he had shown her that he had commenced in her the doing the things things that would disgrace her and he had said then when he had begun with her he had said he did it so that when she was older she could take care of herself with those who wished to make her do things that were wicked things and he would teach her and she would be stronger than such girls who had not any way of knowing better, and she wrote this letter and her father got the letter and he was a paralytic always after, it was a shock to him getting such a letter, he kept saying over and over again that his daughter was trying to kill him and now she had done it and at the time he got the letter he was sitting by the fire and he threw the letter in the fire and his wife asked him what was the matter and he said it is Edith she is killing me, what, is she disgracing us said the mother, no said the father, she is killing me and that was all he said then of the matter and he never wrote another letter.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

When is there some discharge when. There never is.

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

It was a strange winter and nothing and everything happened.

There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War.

When I go around and speak on campuses,
I still don't get young men standing up and saying,
How can I combine career and family?

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

I always say that you cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it every day and you cannot tell what a book is until you type it or proof-read it. It then does something to you that only reading it never can do.

twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.