Gertrude Stein

Résumé général

Date de naissance :	3 Février 1874
Ville de naissance :	Allegheny
Nationalité :	United States of America
Sexe :	Feminin
Ethnie :	Jewish
Profession :	Poet, Writer, Librettist
Religion :	Judaism
Date de décès :	27 Juillet 1946
Cause du décès :	Stomach cancer
Ville de décès :	Paris
Ville d'enterrement :	Père Lachaise Cemetery

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Gertrude Stein, née le 3 février 1874, à Alleghany et décédée le 27 juillet 1946 à Paris, était une poétesse, écrivain, dramaturge et féministe américaine qui a passé la majeure partie de sa vie en France. Elle a été un catalyseur dans le développement de la littérature moderne et de l'art moderne....

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Education

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Johns Hopkins University

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Radcliffe College

Citations de Gertrude Stein

• “ It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
• “ Remarks are not literature.”
• “ Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”

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• “ It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
• “ Remarks are not literature.”
• “ Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”
• “ One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”
• “ I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.”
• “ I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.”
• “ Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
• “ The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
• “ What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.”
• “ There is no there there.”
• “ Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.”
• “ What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the question?”
• “ A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.”
• “ It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.”
• “ What is the answer? -- Silence In that case, what is the question?”
• “ The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.”
• “ Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.”
• “ The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.”
• “ The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
• “ Let me listen to myself and not to them.”
• “ It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.”
• “ Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.”
• “ Money is always there but the pockets change.”

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