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Gertrude Stein Quotes about Country

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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Gertrude Stein
Country, Paris, America
"An American and France" (1936)

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

Gertrude Stein
Country, Passion, Important
Gertrude Stein, Brenda Wineapple (2002). “Three Lives”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

Gertrude Stein
Country, Real, Writing
"Paris France". Book by Gertrude Stein, p. 2 (in 1970 edition), 1940.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

Gertrude Stein
Country, Depressing, Father

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

Gertrude Stein
Country, House, Literature
"Blood on the Dining Room Floor".

Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

Gertrude Stein
Country, Animal, Expression
Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.346, Vintage

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

Gertrude Stein
Mother, Country, War
Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

Gertrude Stein
Country, Passion, Literature
Gertrude Stein (1955). “Painted lace: and other pieces, 1914-1937”

There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is.

Gertrude Stein
Country, War, Cutting
Gertrude Stein (1945). “Wars I Have Seen”, New York : Random House

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Gertrude Stein
Confidence, Country, War
Gertrude Stein (1945). “Wars I Have Seen”, New York : Random House

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