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
In the United States there is more space where nobody is is than where anybody is.
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
We are always the same age inside.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.