Who is Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny West neighborhood 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.In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of the cult-literature scen...
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Gertrude Stein Poems

• 21
  I love my love with a v
  Because it is like that
  I love my love with a b
  Because I am beside that ...
• The House Was Just Twinkling In The Moon Light
  The house was just twinkling in the moon light,
  And inside it twinkling with delight,
  Is my baby bright.
  Twinkling with delight in the house twinkling ...
• Susie Asado
  Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
  Susie Asado.
  Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.
  Susie Asado. ...
• A Frightful Release
  A BAG which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the last time. A piece was not exchanged, not a bit of it, a piece was left over. The rest was mismanaged.
  
  
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• America
  Once in English they said America. Was it English to them.
  Once they said Belgian.
  We like a fog.
  Do you for weather. ...

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Gertrude Stein Quotes

• 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.
• Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
• Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
• Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
• Money is always there, but the pockets change.

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Comments about Gertrude Stein

• Nberlat: i have a whole series of poems named for goose's ears inspired by gertrude stein. one's getting published in touch the donkey in october i guess. and the whole series is under consideration for a chapbook contest...idk. maybe it'll get published someday.
• Bajsksakksk: “whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.”~ gertrude stein
• Karlabrum67: “whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.”~ gertrude stein
• Alcemirg264: “whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.”~ gertrude stein
• Matheusimhocc: “whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.”~ gertrude stein

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