Gertrude Stein's Death

The novelist Gertrude Stein died at the age of 72. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Modernist writer and art collector who attracted such renowned authors and artists as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Pablo Picasso to her Parisian intellectual circle. Her numerous literary works include Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Making of Americans.

Her life partner, Alice Toklas, was the subject of Stein’s popular 1933 memoir, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Quotes

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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.