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Quote by Gertrude Stein

“A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.”

Work

This volume compiles the final operas and plays written by an enigmatic author, showcasing their artistic legacy and the themes explored in their later works. more

Author

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein, an American writer born on February 3, 1874, and died on July 27, 1946. She is renowned for her unique writing style and her influence on modernist literature. more

“Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.”

Ifs Knows Mean Sometimes Matter Enough Understanding Realizing Knowing Importance No Matter What Agree Clarity Great Men Vitality Nobody Knows

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

“I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.”

Real Simple Achieve Simplicity Schemes Complication

Book:A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein

Source: A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein

“I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.”

Literature Views

Book:GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

“Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.”

Done Use

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

“The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.”

Vacation Exhausting Extended Family

Author:Gertrude Stein

“The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.”

Ideas Remember Forget Enemy Eternity Possession Awful Fear Of Death

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don’t understand.”