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
Well, she certainly hadn't a fair run for her money.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is is than where anybody is.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.
... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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.
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.