Gertrude Stein

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

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

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Romance is everything.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

History takes time. History makes memory.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.