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
"Miss Furr and Miss Skeene"
This story about two lesbians, written in 1911, and published in Vanity Fair magazine in July 1923, is considered to be the origin of the use of the term "gay" for "homosexual", though it was not used in this sense in the story.
Geography and Plays (1922)
“I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.”
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936), Afterword of a later edition
“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”
"Sacred Emily"
This statement, written in 1913 and first published in Geography and Plays, is thought to have originally been inspired by the work of the artist Sir Francis Rose; a painting of his was in her Paris drawing-room.
See also the Wikipedia article: Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
Nigel Rees explains the phrase thus: "The poem 'Sacred Emily' by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) is well-nigh impenetrable to the average reader but somehow it has managed to give a format phrase to the language. If something is incapable of explanation, one says, for example, 'a cloud is a cloud is a cloud.' What Stein wrote, however, is frequently misunderstood. She did not say 'A rose is a rose is a rose,' as she might well have done, but 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose' (i.e. no indefinite article at the start and three not two repetitions.) The Rose in question was not a flower but an allusion to the English painter, Sir Francis Rose, 'whom she and I regarded' wrote Constantine Fitzgibbon, 'as the peer of Matisse and Picasso, and whose paintings — or at least painting — hung in her Paris drawing-room while a Gauguin was relegated to the lavatory.'" - Sayings of the Century, page 91
Geography and Plays (1922)
“A master-piece … may be unwelcome but it is never dull.”
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936)
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Useful Knowledge (1928)
