Változat: Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Forrás: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch.1
Gertrude Stein: Idézetek angolul
“You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!”
Gertrude Stein könyv Everybody's Autobiography
Forrás: Everybody's Autobiography
Gertrude Stein könyv The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Forrás: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936), Afterword of a later edition
Gertrude Stein könyv Tender buttons: objects, food, rooms
Forrás: Tender Buttons
Gertrude Stein könyv The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Forrás: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
“What is the answer?" [ I was silent ] "In that case, what is the question?”
Last words (27 July 1946) as told by Alice B. Toklas in What Is Remembered (1963)
"How Writing is Written," Choate Literary Magazine (February 1935)
How Writing Is Written: Previously Uncollected Writings, vol.II (1974)
“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.”
"What Is English Literature?" (1935)
The Geographical History of America (1936)
Gertrude Stein könyv Paris France
Forrás: Paris France (1940), p. 28
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936), Afterword of a later edition
“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”
Forrás: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
