Gertrude Stein

1874–1946 · American modernist writer, poet & art collector

Gertrude Stein was an American expatriate writer whose Paris salon at 27 rue de Fleurus was a hub of early-20th-century modernism, mentoring figures from Picasso to Hemingway. Known for her playful, repetitive prose, she wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and its sequel Everybody’s Autobiography (1937). Her wry aphorisms — often about genius, which she cheerfully claimed for herself — are among the most quoted lines of the era.

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3 quotes we’ve traced to Gertrude Stein

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense”

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“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing”

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“You are all a lost generation”

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