Creative Quotations from Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946) born on Feb 03

US author. She organized a writer's salon in Paris for post- WW I American expatriates known as the "Lost Generation."

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Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere because they think of everybody else as native.

Let me listen to me and not them.

Remarks are not literature.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really frightening.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Everybody's Autobiography, ch. 1 (1937
R:	In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
A:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
N:	Letter, 22 May 1925, to author F. Scott Fitzgerald (first published in The Crack-Up, ed. by Edmund Wilson, 1945)
K:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.