It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINThis is the place of places and and it is here.
GERTRUDE STEINI really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
GERTRUDE STEINWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
GERTRUDE STEINA 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.
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINCommunists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEINAs there was never any question there was never any answer.
GERTRUDE STEINYou attract what you need like a lover.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
GERTRUDE STEINThe creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEIN