It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINA diary means yes indeed.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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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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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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