Kommunisten sind Leute, die sich einbilden, sie hätten eine unglückliche Kindheit gehabt.Gertrude Stein
Translation (German)
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.Gertrude Stein
Original (English)
Translation (German)Click to flip
"Kommunisten sind Leute, die sich einbilden, sie hätten eine unglückliche Kindheit gehabt."
— Gertrude Stein
Translated from English
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Novelists from the United StatesMemoirists from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesAutobiographers from the United StatesPlaywrights from the United States
Original Language: English
Available Languages (2)
Sources
Quoted by Thornton Wilder, interview (December 14-15, 1956) with Richard Goldstone, The Paris Review: Writers at Work, First Series (1958)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Gertrude Stein
1874 – 1946
US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin
152 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Gertrude Stein →
Related Quotes
"No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in deli…"
"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
"The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between …"
"It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken."
"A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessi…"
"Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches."
"A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other thi…"
"From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-stil…"
"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it."
"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."