Gertrude Quote by Clifton Fadiman Download Open image “Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly” — Clifton Fadiman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gertrude Gertrude Stein Things happen
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 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 plot. — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“When, if only for a moment, the novelist steps out of the creator's role, what roles are there for the novelist to step into? There are only creators of stories and characters in stories; there are no other roles. Ruth had never felt such anticipation before. She felt she had absolutely no will to take control of what happened next;… — John Irving Copy Share
“But she did have to do something creative, even if it was just some little thing, because she was not writing, and not writing… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd wanted to be a documentary filmmaker… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“At the moment everything was being destroyed she had created that which was most difficult: she had not drawn something out of nothing (a… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing at all is often the very wisest thing ... as the world is a ball and is turning and everything is in… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something Mary Shelley… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across… — Peter Golenbock Copy Share Image
There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude,… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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