Gertrude Stein

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

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."

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

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

"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."

"It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them."

"It is very easy to love alone."

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

"Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen."

"Romance is everything."

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

"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money."

"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer."

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

"We are always the same age inside."

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