Quotes by Stein, Gertrude

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have >>

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what American >>

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. >>

Quotations about America

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it w >>

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. tha >>

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turne >>

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

Stein, Gertrude