94 Inspirational Quotes By Gertrude Stein, The Author Of Fernhurst
Gertrude Stein was a novelist, playwright, a collector of art and poet from America, who lived in Paris for most of her life and is regarded as an integral member of the avant-garde literary movement in the city in first decades of the 20th century. She was born in a wealthy family and after graduating from the prestigious Radcliffe College, she attended the John Hopkins School of Medicine. However, she dropped out and instead moved to Paris in 1903 in order to pursue a career in literature. One of her first works, ‘Q.E.D’ was an autobiographical book on the love between two women. Her other notable works include ‘Three Lives’, ‘Tender Buttons’, ‘The Making of Americans’, ‘Fernhurst’ and ‘Word Portraits’ among others. Stein was a leading intellectual in Paris and was instrumental in bringing together some of the leading lights of the era in her salon. Some of the individuals who visited her salon include Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemmingway among others. Her book ‘Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas’ was an account of her time in the city. Stein was without doubt a person who was far ahead of her time. Here are some of her most well-known quotes.
One must dare to be happy.
We are always the same age inside.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer.
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
It is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.
Let me listen to me and not to them.
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
You attract what you need like a lover
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
You have to know what you want to get it.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
America is my country, and Paris is my home town.
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.
You are all a lost generation.
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing
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?
Whenever you get there, there is no there there.
There is no there there.
