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
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.
The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
There is no such thing as being good to your wife.
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.