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
There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.
There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
... governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting ...
I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.
I like a view but I sit with my back turned to it
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
You can either buy clothes or buy pictures,