“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

—Gertrude Stein

“I certainly do care for you - less than you are always thinking, and much more than you are ever knowing.”

—Gertrude Stein, Three Lives & Tender Buttons

“I began to get enormously interested in how everybody said the same thing over and over again with infinite variations but over and over again until finally if you listened with great intensity you could hear it rise and fall and tell all that there was inside them, not so much by the actual words they said or the thoughts they had but the movement of their thoughts and words endlessly the same and endlessly different.”

—Gertrude Stein

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.” ― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons”

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“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”

—Gertrude Stein

“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

—Gertrude Stein (Midnight In Paris)

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

—Gertrude Stein 

“It was a strange winter and nothing and everything happened. ”

—Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

“I just tell you and though I don't sound like it I've got plenty of sense; there ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, now that’s the answer.”

—Gertrude Stein, from Brewsie And Willie
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