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
If you can do it then why do it?
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
It is very easy to love alone.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Romance is everything.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.