It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. GERTRUDE STEIN GeniusTimeWorkYourself
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle. GERTRUDE STEIN CircleDealGreatnessNecessaryOurselves
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. GERTRUDE STEIN ExtraordinaryFamilyForgetYourself
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient. GERTRUDE STEIN DeclareMyselfPatiencePatient
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. GERTRUDE STEIN ArtClassicCompositionCreation
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. GERTRUDE STEIN MyselfStrangerWayWriting
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much. GERTRUDE STEIN LearningMarriageOneself
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. GERTRUDE STEIN BelieveChangeScienceThinking
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. GERTRUDE STEIN ChangeMoneyYourself
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. GERTRUDE STEIN AcceptanceReasonRefusalTime
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity. GERTRUDE STEIN AchievementComplicateMyselfRealitySchemeSimplicityYourself
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. GERTRUDE STEIN BetterDifferentOldOneselfPleasure
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. GERTRUDE STEIN BrilliantCareLifestyleLivePlaceStrangeYourself
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said. GERTRUDE STEIN DeathMyselfWay
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life. GERTRUDE STEIN DayFeelingJoyLifeMiracleMorningYourself
