Humrm Franny K Stein Quotes

For the love of all humanity, shake what your mama gave you! ~ Jim Benton

Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and Zooey, the sister gets in trouble and the brother comes to help her out. But I wanted to make sure that in my novel the sister had more to do than lie around on a sofa muttering, which is what Franny does for two-thirds of Salinger's novel. ~ K.M. Soehnlein

Because I'm not a bad guy, Nico. Gert couldn't have loved me if I was. I realize that now. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's ... it's got some gigantic missing pieces. ~ Ben Stein

The car goes where the eyes go. ~ Garth Stein

He [Jock Stein] phoned and asked me to come over and see him one night Hibs were playing at home to Aberdeen. You know Im coming as manager, he said, and I know youll be disappointed. But I want to reciprocate for you making me your deputy by asking you to become my assistant. ~ Sean Fallon

Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass. ~ Elizabeth Hardwick

In tender hearted natures, those that mostly never feel strong passion, suffering often comes to make them harder. When these do not know in themselves what it is to suffer, suffering is then very awful to them and they badly want to help everyone who has to suffer, and they have a deep reverence for anybody who knows really how to always suffer. But when it comes to them to really suffer, they soon begin to lose their fear and tenderness and wonder. Why it isn't so very much to suffer, when even I can bear to do it. It isn't very pleasant to be having all the time, to stand it, but they are not so much wiser after all, all the others just because they know too how to bear it. ~ Gertrude Stein

On the way back something very strange happened. I didn't realize I was going to say it, but I said out loud, "I wish I was dead"... the love and the beauty and the ecstasy of the whole experience I'd just gone through were really so alien. I didn't even know the man... it had been a one-night jag... he was married and had children... and I just felt lost. It hardly seemed worth living any more because once again I was alone. ~ Jean Stein

Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living. ~ Gertrude Stein

However things might change around us, we would always be together. ~ Garth Stein

Who can sleep on the night that God became man? ~ Edith Stein

Who cares what most men do? I say. He looks startled. Clearly the idea of not giving a shit has failed to occur to him. ~ Charlotte Stein

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about. ~ Ben Stein

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind. ~ Ben Stein

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there. ~ Garth Stein

But what I don't like - and what I don't think either Seymour or Buddy would like, either, as a matter of fact - is the way you talk about all these people. I mean you don't just despise what they represent - you despise them. It's too damn personal, Franny. I mean it. You get a real little homicidal glint in your eye when you talk about this Tupper, for instance. All this business about his going into the men's room to muss his hair before he comes in to class. All that. He probably does - it goes with everything else you've told me about him. I'm not saying it doesn't. But it's none of your business, buddy, what he does with his hair. It would be all right, in a way, if you thought his personal affectations were sort of funny. Or if you felt a tiny bit sorry for him for being insecure enough to give himself a little pathetic goddam glamour. But when you tell me about it - and I'm not fooling, now - you tell me about it as though his hair was a goddamn personal enemy of yours. That is not right - and you know it. If you're going to to war against the System, just do your shooting like a nice, intelligent girl - because the enemy's there, and not because you don't like his hairdo or his goddam necktie. ~ J.D. Salinger

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. ~ Gertrude Stein

Beware the whimsy of Fate,...She is a mean bitch of a lab. ~ Enzo-Garth Stein

Is this what a nun feels when she runs wild? Perhaps running wild needn't mean dressing in satin and taking to cigarettes. It might mean running into the wild, into the real, into the ooze and muck and the clean, muddy smell of life. ~ Franny Billingsley

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? ~ Gertrude Stein

It is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do. ~ Gertrude Stein

It is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding. ~ Gertrude Stein

The sun rises every day. What is to love? Lock the sun in a box. Force the sun to overcome adversity in order to rise. Then we will cheer! I will often admire beautiful sunrise, but I will never consider the sun a champion for having risen. ~ Garth Stein

My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis. ~ Alvin Lee

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything. ~ Gertrude Stein

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. ~ Gertrude Stein

I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a Word document and start typing until I get it all out. I've got tons of notes that I never throw out. You never know when a story will strike! ~ Franny Armstrong

There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them. ~ Joel Stein

The artist works by locating the world in himself ~ Gertrude Stein

Death had no lips, but it was smiling ~ Franny Billingsley

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. ~ Sol Stein

We were both satellites orbiting Denny's sun, struggling for gravitational supremacy. Of course, she had the advantage of her tongue and her thumbs, and when I watched her kiss and fondle him sometimes she would glance at me and wink as if to gloat: Look at my thumbs! See what they can do! ~ Garth Stein

When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing a line from dot number 1 to dot number 2 and so on. Most of all, I loved the moment when the chaotic sprinkle of dots resolved itself into a picture.
That's what stories do. They connect the random dots of life into a picture. But it's all an illusion. Just try to connect the dots of life. You'll end up with a lunatic scribble. ~ Franny Billingsley

I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made what I made. ~ Gertrude Stein

Am I ... not what you were expecting?
Of course, my immediate instinct is to say no. No, you're not what I was expecting. You're so heavy and solid and masculine that I just want to climb you like a tree, and maybe live on your face for a couple of decades. ~ Charlotte Stein

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general. ~ Joel Stein

Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness. ~ Garth Stein

At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you. ~ Gertrude Stein

The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on innumerable holes in the sand. Bubbles form and fade. A new language, with a new alphabet ... ~ Franny Billingsley