Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

03-Feb-1874


United States


Novelist

Modern-day author Gertrude Stein moved to Paris in 1903, embarking on his career as a Tender Button and Three Lives, as well as on the subject of homosexual themes. Stein was also a prolific art collector and homeowner who included traveling writers Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson and Ezra Pound.

QUOTES BY Gertrude Stein


"One must dare to be happy."

"We are always the same age inside."

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."

"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

"You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance."

"If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me."

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer."

"It is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do."

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