Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

— Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein Quotes

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

— Gertrude Stein

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

— Gertrude Stein

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

— Gertrude Stein

Forget grammar and think about potatoes.

— Gertrude Stein

Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

— Gertrude Stein
Country

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

— 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

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

— Gertrude Stein
Romance

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

— Gertrude Stein

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

— Gertrude Stein

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

— Gertrude Stein

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

— Gertrude Stein

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

— Gertrude Stein

You attract what you need like a lover.

— Gertrude Stein

You are all a lost generation.

— Gertrude Stein

This is the place of places and and it is here.

— Gertrude Stein

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Gertrude Stein

Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.

— Gertrude Stein

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

— Gertrude Stein
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