Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
148
AUTHOR:
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
QUOTATION:
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.
ATTRIBUTION:
GERTRUDE STEIN, Everybody’s Autobiography, p. 289 (1937, reprinted 1971).
