4 Gertrude Stein Quotes on Expression

Gertrude Stein quotes on expression

15. All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.

43. Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

99. There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life. (New York: Liveright, 1970, p. 12)

113. Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.