Gertrude Stein

“ A center to a prepared and biangular pedestal is so special that there is no care and no spectacle further than just enough to show the reason of the respect and the careful surmounted dangling.
A season to oppose is that June day and that appetite that being particular is so festooned is so evenly arranged and so darkened that despair all the occasion for more and most and mighty is in the denied robbery. Is there robbery, why is there no claret and fish, why is there none so handsome and love all love and giving voice, does giving voice mean rejection and argument and even attribution. ”

“ A carpet, what is a carpet, a carpet is something that is not dusty, that is not delapidated, that is neither perspiring or draughty, that is not perfect or determined. A carpet is something that, judging from the beginning, from the middle, from the end, is not necessary when there is no necessity for it. A carpet is such a thing and the choice of it, the choice for it, all that is done to declare it is just the search for the truth, for the darkness, for delicacy and for reason. ”

“ Is it astonishing that red and green are rosy red and voilet green, is it surprising that so rich a thing shows a certain little thing, shows that every bit of blue is precious and this is shown by finding, by finding and obtaining, by not silencing disentangling, by never refusing resigning. All the blank burden and surely there is none in a particular discreet turning, surely there is no unit in smelling and no market in market gardening. ”

“ So much kindness matters when there is the question and what of a meadow, why is a meadow green. So much kindness matters when there is repetition and there is repetition in a saloon, there is no dirt anywhere. All the same the discussion has no resistance and the change which is announced does not differ in degree from that which accomodated with regular day-light shows no separation. All the talk is chosen and all the urging is contemporary. ”

“ It is not very much to be a baby. It certainly is nothing just to be one, to be without a conscious feeling. It is something to have a baby come into the world by way of them but it certainly is not very much to have been the little thing that was once all them.
It is something to have a baby come into the world through them. It is nothing just to be one.
First then they make a baby. No it is never very much just to be a baby. Later in life when one is proud as a man or as a lady it is not right that they ever could have dandled and kissed and fixed them, helpless, just a baby. ”

“ Doing something is interesting to some, if not any one is remembering that that thing has just been done. Doing something is interesting to some if not any one is remembering that any one was one beginning doing some such thing. Doing something is interesting to some when those are remembering that every one has been doing that thing in having been shown that thing. Doing something is interesting to some when they are certain that all having been doing that thing have been completely dead and have not been forgotten. ”

“ Dark and slow and the little court is wrong as is the way when there are so many and not a few are left. To bespeak that affection is to declare no more.
All right away and so much where there is nothing empty, so much and such a pretty color to shine often, there is no praise where the pleasure is so precise and more than that there can be and the most is black and another color. ”

“ A lively letter is distributed in a pencil case and so the sweetness of delight is so urged that tumbling is no nuisance.
So then the beginning has a piercing foundation. It agrees to all the rest. It plans that spare ticking.
A bargain has lettering and it has more photographing than any amount of musical instruments. It does sound a drum and a calendar. It does show piercing likeness to it all and it is not leathery, it has no consistence.
The gloom is not effaced by resignation, it takes more light than dinner. It has it all. There is no choice. ”

“ Not by any means is there giving and forgiving not by any means. There is no palling so stern that it is resembling. There is no sense so simple that it is resembling. There is no darkness so much darker but it is darker the way it is darker. This does not mean that there is any reason. It means simply that any excuse is related. It means that no resemblance is more urged than that which separates a family and children. ”

“ If the time happened to be pleasant and the rain happened to show that water was industrious, if all the heat was in a sitting-room and darkness settled down over a lamp, if all this happened separately there would be the same astonishment as in every case and yet the whole endurance of perplexity is under what is not ever over and exasperated. All the extreme respect is countenanced, all the satin shoes have soles, all of them and no doubt mixed when mistaken. ”

“ A dark day is a day when the light is away and the light has been lit and the fire has not gone away and the day that has been a dark day is a day when the flowers are gay and the color that is there is staying there. ”

“ To go into the mud and spill potatoes, to go into the water and pick up water, to go everywhere and wash a petunia, this is a disgrace, it is such a disgrace that there is no meaning in closing and yet, why forget, when to forget is one thing, which to forget is something, the simple time to select a new example is in the same way. ”

“ A very curious thing is that a whole name means no more than if there is success, not a bit more place is used by those using more than by those receiving company. It makes every one glad to see the genius and the energy and the simple way that a thing is put down. Why is there any reason that there should be hesitation. Is it necessary that one seeing the time not wasted should arrange that there is no more fatigue. ”

“ Supposing no one sees clearly that the end has not come. Supposing no one sees more clearly ever. Does that mean that there is no regret, does that even mean that the loudest resemblance is stolen by shoving. No more is necessarily used in an individual recitation.
The pretext of a sack of no more than three yearly is not a sudden resolution, it is not carried away by pay. Paying sweetly and paying neatly is so like lounging and suspecting everybody where there is no habit of black and lace. ”

“ An odor is a singular glance and milk and lightning, a perfume is an article and an expected space and even an authority. What is a singular glance if it is that and wider, what is milk and there is that altogether, what is lightning and there are no widows who are cleaner, what is an article when there are regular festoons and what is an expected space and what is more than the same which is actually to be splendid. ”

“ All the evening and the walking, all the passing of the living, all the knowing of the living of the ones who are prospering, all the tender pressing of the complete expression, all the exaggerating in examination, all the actual decision, nothing is more than too much then, there is all of that waiting and there is that one sleeping. ”

“ To sweep and not to leave what is not swept up, to reply and not to refuse to continue talking, to explain and to convince some one, to show all and to keep what is hidden, to be expressive and to attack the expense of travelling, to be careful and to ejaculate, to be sincere and to be using confounding refusing with deterioration, to be moving and steadying and surging and complaining and succeeding and grieving and exalting and speeding and pressing and acquiring is not the same thing as being any one. Some one is not the same and that one is not refusing all in refusing everything. ”

“ Is it more in the hurry of a sudden falling of a particular cat, what is it more in than in the rest of renouncement, in what is it more. It is more in the water, it is more in the tree, it is more in the house, it is more in the court and in the hall and in the trifling heap of stones crossed early by anything waiting. ”

“ Leading the rain through the thing that is open and making it wet where the smell has been smelling is the hardest way to kill the whole bull that is charging in and running. It is not losing everything in losing all the blood that is oozing. It is goring. It is not distressing. That is one way to delay what is happening when it happens that day. ”

“ The best way is to say than an appetite resembles a season, it has fish. Playing more means that a tail is in the kite and anyway of tying that is dissimilar.
No season is plentiful, any season has more juice than snow, any season is so rickety. The silence and the sinking of the morning sun means no more than every habit. ”

“ To suggest wounding, this is so much mixed with care and with eye glasses and even with opportunity, can there be negligence when there are so many willing, can there be mistakes when so many have married and are marrying, can there be fellow feeling.
A sparkle a single sparkle makes wishing fatal, a single earnest merriment makes a mark on a slice of something. ”

“ Does anybody think that the turn and the break and the lavender and the currants and the hot cocoanut altogether is a wonderful mixture. Does anybody think so.
Tune, a tune is in the hurt way there is no mountain. There comes to be, there comes to be, there is an exchange of that taste. Sweetness is no reason. ”

“ If one coming to remember all that has been happening knows that he can not lose everything he can decide to give up keeping anything and in that way he can resolve quite completely resolve what he has known he could not resolve. ”

“ They are splendid by the short way there is more collection. They are always splendid entirely.
A more sullen supper and eating is entirely repeated. It is entirely in a show and even in a whisper in any loud whisper softer. A survey is so weak and more checkers any more checkers are solemn and loud and wild waveringly wet. All the best is in times and much suddenly secreted is so hurried, so very hurried finely. ”

“ A real red intoxication and no perspiring blaze not even a silk hat, is there no stranger showing, is there not a selection. The pleasantest elegance is in a collar, it is and there is the red exactness that shows color and no such light. ”

“ All the time to rest and not any time of day to go away is not so much more pleasing than an afternoon.
There is a stranger and a shorter time and everything is longer. There does not seem to be a rest when there is a certain assurance for certainly there is more money spent and there is all that time to please. ”

“ Soap is not only a hope it is a release. When is it a release, it is a release when the quiet is so great that no sound whistles.
A lively wedding is not useless, it shows action, it shows measure, it shows union. ”

“ A mingling of not drinking is sweeter. There is no dust. There was a time when all the teeth that were were so expressed that some effect was bitten and yet morally, and morally is not a repetition, and yet morally the synonym is not so excessive. A plunge is not more hardy than an allusion to something. Photography is not agonising. It is a change in deportment. It is accustomed to acceptation. It is not convenient in embroidery.
A blind page is one with edges and mingling, this makes it show when there is opposition, this makes it show a sheet. ”

“ If there is reading and recollection is tall and the time that has light has made the night, if there is reading and a recollection makes arithmetic, then a memory has no choice, it remembers nothing, it remembers more, it enlarges satisfaction. Is satisfaction suspicion, it is there, it is in peace. All the time is sweeping. All that and more. No use is more hindered than a smelling cover. ”

“ A shadow, a living shadow is in quantity and design and distribution. A regretted shadow is in organisation and distribution and retribution. Any shadow is famous and any face is soon painting. Any heroism is hard limited and any line is fabulous, and the church any church is taken when there are windows and a winter waiting, any likelihood shows that red. ”

“ Wait and mingle nothing sweet, wait and beg the time to stay, wait and go and go away, and wait when all is simpler.
Bet so heavily with a wife that sooner the wedding will be early yet, bet and shadow the least flower there so that growing is ingrowing longer and shorter. Growing longer is growing everywhere. ”

“ Work in the late sad sweetening red ferns and lift the bell so that there is no closet, search and shake the best example and never shudder in the cuddling water. See the silence rest in black and suffer all the spoons to wander, allow the more to see it with the glass and bestow more actual prunes than stay together. ”