Gertrude Stein Important Quotations

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

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

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.