Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude Stein
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
Art Collector
Author
Autobiographer
Collector
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Salonnière
Writer
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
Gertrude Stein
Feels
Silly
Kind
Lived
Never
Stupid
Literature
Dies
Lying
Jobs
Chaser
Feel
Chasers
More quotes by Gertrude Stein
More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
Gertrude Stein
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
Gertrude Stein
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein
I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
Gertrude Stein
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
Gertrude Stein
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
Gertrude Stein
But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
Gertrude Stein
An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
Gertrude Stein
Two things are always the same the dance and war.
Gertrude Stein
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Gertrude Stein
I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.
Gertrude Stein
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Gertrude Stein
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
Gertrude Stein
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Gertrude Stein
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
Gertrude Stein
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
Gertrude Stein
One must dare to be happy.
Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
Gertrude Stein