“Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United States there is more space… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
“Many American women over forty are not worried about their wrinkles and don’t give a rat’s ass about enhancing them. There’s this… — Misti Rainwater-Lites Copy Share Image
“Concerning the death of Gertrude Stein: she came out of a deep coma to ask her companion Alice Toklas, 'Alice, Alice, what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
“When he returned to Florida in the early part of 1939, Hemingway took his boat the Pilar across the Straits of Florida… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“And I *know* I wrote in the above that I hate biographies and reviews that focus on the psychological, surface detail, especially… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There's a reason why trainspotters are not girls, there's a reason why there's the myth of the slightly autistic male genius, there's… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Hemingway studied, as models, the novels of Knut Hamsun and Ivan Turgenev. Isaac Bashevis Singer, as it happened, also chose Hamsun and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“We have heard the stories: Duke Ellington would say, “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say,… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“What is the answer?” Gertrude Stein asked Alice B. Toklas as Stein was dying. There was no reply. “In that case, what… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. Raymond Queneau After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“Women understand that there are two distinct economies: There is physical attraction, and then there is the “ideal.” When a woman looks… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
“Yes, I hate blown glass art and I happen to live in the blown glass art capital of the world, Seattle, Washington.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
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