Gertrude Stein

"I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher."

"It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,."

"For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts."

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story."

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."