It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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