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
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
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.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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.