Gertrude Stein Quotes


To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.


Citations

Stein, Gertrude. "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene." Geography and Plays, The Four Seas Company, 1922.

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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
  • Born: February 3, 1874
  • Died: July 27, 1946
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer, Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Art Collector

Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny West neighborhood and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet.