Diana Vreeland
Fashion Editor
"The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls"
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Gertrude
19 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost."
Anne Carson
Poet
"He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet."
James Thurber
Cartoonist, Author
"You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]"
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"Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done."
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"I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein."
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