4 Gertrude Stein Quotes on Home

Gertrude Stein quotes on home

55. America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be.

56. And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made.

84. What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there. ~ Ch. 4

90. After all, everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, it is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there. (New York: Liveright, 1970, p. 2)