Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. – Gertrude Stein
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. – Gertrude Stein

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. – Gertrude Stein
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. – Gertrude Stein
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. – Gertrude Stein
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. – Gertrude Stein
Take particular care of your books…. When you lend a book to any one, make a memorandum of it before it leaves your house, and when it is returned cancel the entry. Every Passover and Tabernacles call in all your books that are out on loan. – Judah Ibn Tibbon, advice to son, quoted by Israel Abrahams, Jewish Life in the M