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Gertrude Stein
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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
Gertrude Stein
American author (1874–1946)
- Fame61.9
- Momentum0.0
- United States rank#226
Source-basedStable
- Fame61.9
- Momentum0.0
- United States rank#226
- Writers rank#245
- Wikipedia50.7K
Lived 1874–1946, aged 72United States
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She wrote "a rose is a rose is a rose" and hosted the room where Hemingway, Picasso, and Fitzgerald sharpened their edges. Then a memoir written as her lover made her famous to people who'd never read her.
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Gertrude Stein left Oakland for Paris in 1903 and turned her salon into modernism's living room—Picasso, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Matisse all passed through. She published experimental work nobody bought: Q.E.D., Three Lives, The Making of Americans, Tender Buttons. In 1933 she wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in her partner's voice, and the book became a bestseller that pulled her out of cult obscurity into mainstream attention. During World War II, as a Jew in Nazi-occupied France, she may have survived only through the protection of Vichy official Bernard Faÿ, a Nazi collaborator; a…
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Gertrude Stein
said
No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight.
— "Are There Arithmetics" (28 May 1927) [written in 1923]
Gertrude Stein
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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)
Gertrude Stein
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Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.
— If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (1923). First published in Vanity Fair.
Gertrude Stein
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The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just...
— Manuscript (1903), published in Q.E.D. Book 1, from Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings (1971)
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