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
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
A diary means yes indeed.
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.