“ Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story. Gertrude Stein
“ I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, whi… Gertrude Stein
“ ' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite like this interrogative formulation, since the question—as Gertrude Stein once famously if terminally put it—may be more abs… Christopher Hitchens
“ A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create. Meia Geddes
“ Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word Woe, which she handed out gaily declaring, Woe is me. Ross Wetzsteon
“ My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cordial and friendly and we had loved the big studio with the great paintings. I t was like one of the b… Ernest Hemingway
“ And I *know* I wrote in the above that I hate biographies and reviews that focus on the psychological, surface detail, especially when they pertain to women writers, because I think it’s really about… Kate Zambreno
“ It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before, Gertrude Stein
