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Gertrude Stein

Read through the most famous quotes from Gertrude Stein




We are always the same age inside.


— Gertrude Stein


#always #inside #same

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.


— Gertrude Stein


#careful #everybody #knows #occupied #over

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


— Gertrude Stein


#humor #humor

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


— Gertrude Stein


#all day #common #common sense #day #everybody

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.


— Gertrude Stein


#carefulness #caution #over-caution #bravery

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.


— Gertrude Stein


#integrity

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.


— Gertrude Stein


#ears #eyes #his #paint #painter

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.


— Gertrude Stein


#inspirational

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.


— Gertrude Stein


#life

Affectations can be dangerous.


— Gertrude Stein


#humor






About Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein Quotes




Did you know about Gertrude Stein?

D. Toklas on September 8 1907 on Toklas' first day in Paris at Sarah and Michael Stein's apartment. Toklas which became a literary bestseller.

". The advent of this book elevated Stein from the relative obscurity of cult literary figure into the light of mainstream attention. She was born in West Allegheny (Pittsburgh) Pennsylvania raised in Oakland California and moved to Paris in 1903 making France her home for the remainder of her life.

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