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
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting
Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.