The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Gertrude Stein

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
Gertrude Stein

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
Gertrude Stein

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

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
Gertrude Stein

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
Gertrude Stein

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
Gertrude Stein

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.
Gertrude Stein

There is no there there.
Gertrude Stein

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Gertrude Stein

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Gertrude Stein

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
Gertrude Stein

Very likely education does not make very much difference.
Gertrude Stein

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
Gertrude Stein

We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein

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

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

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein