She said he was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
Gertrude Stein Quotes
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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| Birth: | 3rd February, 1874 |
| Death: | 27th July, 1946 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist, Poet, Writer |
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Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an American novelist, poet, writer, and art collector. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures in modernism in literature and art would meet, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse. She wrote several books include: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Tender Buttons, Three Lives, The Making of Americans(novel), Paris France, The World is Round, How to Write, Ida: A Novel, Wars I Have seen, Portraits and prayers, Blood on the dining-room floor(novel), Lifting Belly(poem), and Mrs. Reynolds.
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