It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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