It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINBut the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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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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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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