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

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Gertrude Stein

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
Gertrude Stein

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
Gertrude Stein

History takes time. History makes memory.
Gertrude Stein

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
Gertrude Stein

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

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein

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

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
Gertrude Stein

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Gertrude Stein

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
Gertrude Stein

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
Gertrude Stein

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Gertrude Stein

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein

If you can do it then why do it?
Gertrude Stein