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
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
You are all a lost generation.
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.