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“Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly”

Happens Things Happen Gertrude

Author:Clifton Fadiman

“Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.”

Done Bed Gertrude

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."”

World Writing Feelings Form Force Talent This World Judging Genius Familiar Strokes Criteria Ephemeral Imitator Gertrude Graphs

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.”

Married Frail Gertrude

Author:Leslie Fiedler

“The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls”

Two Girl Century Gertrude

Author:Diana Vreeland

“ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.”

Giving Long Said Asks Answers Silence Listening Deathbed Gertrude Long Silence

Book:Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

“I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.”

Looks Doe Art Said Differences Portraits Gertrude

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…

“A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, “I don’t look like that.” And Picasso replied, “You will.” And he was right.”

Looks Said Reality Risk Painting Portraits Gertrude

Author:James A. Baldwin