Gertrude Stein Biography

Gertrude Stein, Author
Occup.Author
FromUSA
SpouseAlice B. Toklas
BornFebruary 3, 1874
Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA
DiedJuly 29, 1946
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
CauseStomach cancer
Aged72 years
Gertrude Stein was an American modernist author, poet, as well as art collection agency born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. She is best recognized for her experimental works, unique creating style, as well as substantial payment to the growth of 20th-century literature and art.

Stein was the youngest of 5 brother or sisters in a well-to-do Jewish household. Her parents were Daniel and Amelia Stein. The family often traveled to Europe as well as resolved in Paris in 1903, where Gertrude lived for greater than 40 years.

Growing up, Stein attended numerous prestigious establishments, including Harvard University's Annex for Female (later on renamed Radcliffe College) and Johns Hopkins College School of Medication. Nevertheless, she determined to leave her clinical studies in 1901 without making a level.

In Paris, Stein's residence at 27 Rue de Fleurus came to be the facility of avant-garde intellectual life, attracting a prominent circle of modernist musicians, authors, as well as thinkers. She organized a famous Saturday night beauty salon, where luminaries such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Ezra Extra pound collected to talk about as well as question art, literary works, and also suggestions.

Stein and also her bro Leo started to collect contemporary art, making her collection one of the earliest and also most important of its kind. She was a substantial champ and also client of Cubist artists, especially Picasso and Matisse. Stein was likewise proactively involved in the Lesbian community in Paris, and also her partner, Alice B. Toklas, played a necessary duty in her individual and expert life.

As an author, Stein accepted an unique design identified by recurring wording, use of wordplay, and also an unique technique to spelling and grammar. She penciled countless publications, plays, and important essays. Several of her significant works consist of "3 Lives" (1909), "Tender Buttons" (1914), as well as "The Memoir of Alice B. Toklas" (1933), which is considered her most obtainable and also prominent work.

Gertrude Stein's impact expanded beyond her literary outcome. She is commonly credited with coining the term "The Lost Generation" to define the disillusioned authors and also musicians who came of age during the First World Battle. Stein's literary beauty parlor, friendships, as well as patronage substantially shaped the trajectories of many modernist artists.

Throughout The Second World War, Stein and also Toklas stayed in the countryside of France, where they stayed risk-free despite Stein's Jewish heritage. Stein took pleasure in a significant step of fame in her later years, particularly in the United States, where she explored thoroughly as well as lectured at universities from 1934-1935.

Gertrude Stein passed away from belly cancer cells on July 27, 1946, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Despite her controversial and typically misconstrued job, Stein's influence on literary works, art, and also intellectual idea has actually been extensive, and also her speculative, innovative creating paved the way for future generations of writers and also musicians.

Our collection contains 81 quotes who is written / told by Gertrude, under the main topics: Art - Politics - Technology - Science - Family.

Related authors: Henri Matisse (Artist), Thornton Wilder (Writer), Pablo Picasso (Artist), Ernest Hemingway (Novelist), Georges Braque (Artist), James Joyce (Novelist), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author)

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81 Famous quotes by Gertrude Stein

Small: Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always ups
"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are"
Small: Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening
"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening"
Small: History takes time. History makes memory
"History takes time. History makes memory"
Small: Very likely education does not make very much difference
"Very likely education does not make very much difference"
Small: It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself
"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself"
Small: Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"
Small: Remarks are not literature
"Remarks are not literature"
Small: It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teet
"It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night"
Small: To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write
"To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write"
Small: Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string bean
"Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal"
Small: What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country
"What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country"
Small: I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a di
"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go"
Small: I dont envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest v
"I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not"
Small: There is no there there
"There is no there there"
Small: Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself
"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself"
Small: It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a sho
"It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock"
Small: If you can do it then why do it?
"If you can do it then why do it?"
Small: It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she
"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"
Small: What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriag
"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage"
Small: That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go bac
"That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back"
Small: It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important
"It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important"
Small: I think the reason I am important is that I know everything
"I think the reason I am important is that I know everything"
Small: A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself
"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself"
Small: A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull
"A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull"
Small: A house in the country is not the same as a country house
"A house in the country is not the same as a country house"
Small: A diary means yes indeed
"A diary means yes indeed"
Small: Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to des
"Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family"
Small: Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know
"Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know"
Small: Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population
"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population"
Small: Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in any
"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything"
Small: Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation
"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation"
Small: Hemingways remarks are not literature
"Hemingway's remarks are not literature"
Small: Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything
"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything"
Small: Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense
"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense"
Small: Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few gr
"Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages"
Small: Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumbl
"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something"
Small: Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense"
Small: Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood
"Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood"
Small: But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still dont get young men standing up
"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"
Small: Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded
"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded"
Small: Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and
"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it"
Small: An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work
"An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work"
Small: America is my country and Paris is my hometown
"America is my country and Paris is my hometown"
Small: Action and reaction are equal and opposite
"Action and reaction are equal and opposite"
Small: A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears
"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears"
Small: A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows not
"A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables"
Small: Youll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have live
"You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived"
Small: When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. A
"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that"
Small: There is no such thing as being good to your wife
"There is no such thing as being good to your wife"
Small: There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more
"There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more"
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