aus: Off we all went to see Germany. In: LIFE Magazine, Bd. 19, Nr.6, 6. August 1945, pp.54-58, 56 books.google https://books.google.at/books?id=0EkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56&dq=disobedience, ISSN 0024-3019.
Original engl.: "When General Osborne came to see me just after the victory, he asked me what I thought should be done to educate the Germans. I said there is only one thing to be done and that is to teach them disobedience, as long as they are obedient so long sooner or later they will be ordered about by a bad man and there will be trouble. Teach them disobedience, I said, make every German child know that it is its duty at least once a day to do its good deed and not believe something its father or its teacher tells them, confuse their minds, get their minds confused and perhaps then they will be disobedient and the world will be at peace. The obedient peoples go to war, disobedient people like peace, that is the reason that Italy did not really become a good Axis, the people were not obedient enough, the Japs and the Germans are the only really obedient people on earth and see what happens, teach them disobedience, confuse their minds, teach them disobedience, and the world can be peaceful. General Osborne shook his head sadly, you'll never make the heads of an army understand that."
Gertrude Stein Berühmte Zitate
Everybody's Autobiography, Kap. 2
Original engl.: "It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."
„Rose ist eine Rose ist eine Rose ist eine Rose.“
Die Welt ist rund/The World Is Round, 1939
Original engl.: "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." - Sacred Emily, 1913
Zitate über Zweifel von Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein Zitate und Sprüche
Everybody's Autobiography, Kap. 1
Original engl.: "The white race does not really think they belong anywhere because they think of everybody else as native."
„Jede jeder beschließt dass keine keiner etwas erfährt selbst wenn jede jeder es weiß“
aus: Keine keiner, 1990, Arche-Verlag, Zürich, Seite 36, ISBN 3-7160-2117-2, Originalausgabe: Blood on the Dining-Room Floor, 1948
Everybody's Autobiography
“Einstein was the creative philosophic mind of the century, and I have been the creative literary mind of the century also with the Oriental mixing with the European.” - Everybody's Autobiography. PT25 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=R_qGqJ01RFMC&pg=PT25
„Kommunisten sind Leute, die sich einbilden, sie hätten eine unglückliche Kindheit gehabt.“
gemäß Thornton Wilder The Paris Review: Writers at Work, First Series (1958)
Original engl.: "Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood."
Gertrude Stein: Zitate auf Englisch
Variante: Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Quelle: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch.1
“America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be.”
An American and France (1936)
“You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!”
Quelle: Everybody's Autobiography
Quelle: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936), Afterword of a later edition
Quelle: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
“What is the answer?" [ I was silent ] "In that case, what is the question?”
Last words (27 July 1946) as told by Alice B. Toklas in What Is Remembered (1963)
"How Writing is Written," Choate Literary Magazine (February 1935)
How Writing Is Written: Previously Uncollected Writings, vol.II (1974)
“It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.”
"What Is English Literature?" (1935)
The Geographical History of America (1936)
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936), Afterword of a later edition
“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”
Quelle: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3