Gertrude Stein

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.