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
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.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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.
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.
What was the use of my having come from Oakland, it was not natural to have come from there, yes, write about it if I like or anything, if I like, but not there, there is no there there