Gertrude famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
-- Anne Carson -
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
-- Clifton Fadiman -
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.
-- James Laughlin -
You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
-- James Thurber -
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
-- Leslie Fiedler -
Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.
-- Mina Loy -
People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others...
-- Randall Jarrell -
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.
-- Randall Jarrell -
Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.
-- Laura Mullen -
Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?
-- Roddy Piper
