Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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
Cannot
Particularly
Writing
Conservative
Much
Necessary
Completely
Upon
Free
Conformity
Write
Conventions
Order
Traditional
More quotes by Gertrude Stein
Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
Gertrude Stein
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
Gertrude Stein
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
Gertrude Stein
But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
Gertrude Stein
Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
Gertrude Stein
Forget grammar and think about potatoes
Gertrude Stein
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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
there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
Gertrude Stein
It is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude Stein
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
Gertrude Stein
each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
Gertrude Stein
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
Gertrude Stein
Too few is as many as too many.
Gertrude Stein
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
Gertrude Stein
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
Gertrude Stein
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein
Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
Gertrude Stein
When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
Gertrude Stein
The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
Gertrude Stein
