#al

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#care #certainly #four #grinds #her

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#death #eyes #hope #illusions #indulge

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#about #after #always #change #pockets

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#any #bore #ever #everybody #i

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

— Gertrude Stein

#everyone #lived #observe #one time #say

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#came #dancing #forward #go #out

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs. ↗

— William Howard Stein

#expectations #high #keep #moderate #needs

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#century #completely #cosmic #discoveries #had

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#fatal #lost #never #war

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#alike #coercion #find #fruitless #itself