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Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874, in Pittsburgh - July 27, 1946) was an American writer, poet, feminist, playwright and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich."

Stein, Gertrude · Desire · 1 fans >>
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"What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?"

Stein, Gertrude · Famous Last Words · 6 fans >>
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"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true."

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

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"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."

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"The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in."

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"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing."

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"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."

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"Remarks are not literature."

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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."

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