"Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen……" — Clifton Fadiman

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• Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never… — Sheridan Morley
• Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100… — Roddy Piper
• Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither… — Edward Abbey
• Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and… — Jack Kerouac
• Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. — Leslie Fiedler
• The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a… — Diana Vreeland
• ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What… — Frederick Buechner
• I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does… — Gertrude Stein
• A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about… — James A. Baldwin
• Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used… — James Laughlin
• Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of… — Peter Golenbock
• I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a… — Steven Morrissey

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