Gertrude Stein

“If you can do it, it ain't bragging.”

“There is no there there.”

“You are all a lost generation.”

“Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening.”

“Money is always there but the pockets change.”

“A writer's job is to tell the truth.”

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

“Remarks are not literature.”

“Writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live.”

“To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.”

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

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

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”

“America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”

“Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.”

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”

“The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.”

“What was the question?”

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