Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 5
Gertrude Stein: 160 citations0 J'aime
Gertrude Stein: Citations en anglais
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
“It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.”
"As Eighty," from Bee Time Vine (1953, Yale University Press); written in 1923
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 4
Four in America (1933)
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 4, p. 289
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936), Afterword of a later edition
“As there was never any question there was never any answer.”
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch.1
“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
Gertrude Stein livre The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Comment to Ernest Hemingway, Ch. 7
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
Manuscript (1903), published in Q.E.D. Book 1, from Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings (1971)
“Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.”
Quoted by Thornton Wilder, interview (December 14-15, 1956) with Richard Goldstone, The Paris Review: Writers at Work, First Series (1958)
“It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.”
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
Quoted in Really Reading Gertrude Stein : A Selected Anthology with essays (1989) by Judy Grahn (Crossing Press ISBN 0-895-94380-8, p. 253
“Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer.”
"Near East or Chicago A Description"
Useful Knowledge (1928)
“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
This phrase was used as the title of a work published in 1931, but was originally used in Ch. LXII of A Novel of Thank You, written in 1925-1926, but not published until 1958 by the Yale University Press
“The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.”
Mrs. Reynolds and Five Earlier Novelettes (1952) Pt. 1 (written 1940-1943)
“One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”
Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (22 May 1925), published in Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up (1945)
“Politeness does not interfere with facts, politeness is just another fact.”
Gertrude Stein livre Paris France
Paris France (1940)
“To know to know to love her so.
Four saints prepare for saints.”
Four Saints in Three Acts (1927)
Operas and Plays (1932)
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
