Gertrude Stein

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

When you get there there isn't any there there.

The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

A FEATHER.A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

We are always the same age inside.

nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen.

The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection of the objects he has put into his pictures and he lives in the reflections of his pictures, a writer, a serious writer, conceives himself as existing by and in himself, he does not at all live in the reflection of his books, to write he must first of all exist in himself, but for a painter to be able to paint, the painting must first of all be done.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.