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
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
Well, she certainly hadn't a fair run for her money.
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him.
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.
When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
Very likely education does not make very much difference.
Remarks aren't literature.