Gertrude Stein Quotes

Gertrude Stein — American Author born on February 03, 1874, died on July 29, 1946

Gertrude Stein was an American writer of novels, poetry and plays. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, making France her home for the remainder of her life. A literary innovator and pioneer of Modernist literature, Stein’s work broke with the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of the 19th-century. She was also known as a collector of Modernist art... (wikipedia)

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

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.