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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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Romance is everything.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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