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
You have to know what you want to get it.
One must dare to be happy.
I am I because my little dog knows me.
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
Any time is the time to make a poem.
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
A diary means yes indeed.
If a thing can be done, why do it?
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.