Crazy Quote by Bennett Cerf

There's a wonderful family called Stein: There's Gert and there's Ep and there's Ein. Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are junk, And no-one…

— Anonymous

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

— Anne Carson

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.

— James Laughlin

“For Mary O’Hare and Gerhard Müller”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Leslie Fiedler

Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.

— Walter Kirn

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

— Clifton Fadiman

“Germans fell silent, watching her, moving sideways to let her pass. Isabelle heard one of them say “mannish” and another “widow.” Anouk seemed not…

— Kristin Hannah

Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an…

— Laura Mullen

“Amitai shook his head, almost smiling, because here he was, feeling for the first time that the tragedy of European Jewry did belong to…

— Ayelet Waldman

“Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.”

— Ezra Pound