It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINGenerally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Romance is everything.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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