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
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
Remarks aren't literature.
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany.
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.