Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Gertrude Stein

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Gertrude Stein

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

Gertrude Stein

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

Gertrude Stein

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

Gertrude Stein

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Gertrude Stein