Gertrude Stein Quotes

• February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946
• Gertrude Stein was an American writer of novels, poetry and plays.
• In 1933, Stein published a kind of memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Toklas, her life partner. 
• Stein, the youngest of a family of five children, was born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
• Parents-Daniel and Amelia Stein.

Gertrude Stein Quotes

We are always the same age inside.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

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

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

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

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

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

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

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

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