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Gertrude Stein Quotes (174 quotes)
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| Source/Notes: Wars I Have Seen (1945) |
| “What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.” ―Gertrude Stein Source/Notes: Last Operas and Plays (1995 edition), Taylor & Francis - ISBN: 9780801849855 |
| Source/Notes: Last words (1946-07-27) as told by Alice B. Toklas in What Is Remembered (1963) |
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| “From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.” ―Gertrude Stein Source/Notes: Form and Intelligibility, from The Radcliffe Manuscripts (1949); written in 1894 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College |
| “The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don't understand.” ―Gertrude Stein Source/Notes: Manuscript (1903), published in Q.E.D. Book 1, from Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings (1971) |
| “A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.” ―Gertrude Stein Source/Notes: A Circular Play, from Last Operas and Plays (1949) [written in 1920] |
| Source/Notes: If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (1923). First published in Vanity Fair. |
| “All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.” ―Gertrude Stein Source/Notes: Statement quoted by Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast (1964) Ch. 3, it had also provided the epigraph to The Sun Also Rises (1926). |
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Gertrude Stein
Born: February 3, 1874
Died: July 29, 1946 (aged 72)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Author, writer, poet
Bio: Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet, and art collector who spent most of her life in France.
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