It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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One must dare to be happy.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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