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
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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.