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Gertrude Stein Biography

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was 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 of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet.

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All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.

Cry, Extra, Sigh, Sighing, World

It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.

Character, Charm, Dies, Fighting, Struggle, Writ

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Abundance, Literature, Marriage, Religion, Stones

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

Americans, Buyer, Buyers, Great American, Marketing, Successes

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

Frightened, Life Is, Likes, Live, Soothing, Though

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Healing, Let, Let Me, Listen, Self Esteem

A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

Bugs, Light, Littles, Loud, Post

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

Care, Doe, Influence, Long, Remarked

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Fatal, Literature, Lost, War

A masterpiece. . . may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

Dull, Masterpiece, May, Unwelcome

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Feels, Firsts, Hopeful, Live, Moving, Painting

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Afraid, Losing, Moral, Mud Puddles, Take

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

Communication, Fighting, Make, Miracles, Writing

That is what you are. That's what you all are. . . All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

Generation, Generations, Lost, People, War, Young

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Change, Funny, Money, Pockets

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Important, Make, Mind, Novelists, Thing

I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

Gertrude, Ifs, Toklas, Alice, Stein

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

Making Mistakes, Mistake, Mistakes, Patriarchal, Patriarchy, Poetry

It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.

America, Public, Sense, Should, Worry

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

Exciting, Fashion, French, Logic, People, Two Sides

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