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
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.