Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Steinwas an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures in modernism in literature and art would meet, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 February 1874
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Gertrude Stein quotes about
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.