It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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• Gertrude Stein:

  Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to st

• Gertrude Stein:

  Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

• Gertrude Stein:

  What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

• Gertrude Stein:

  When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alon

• Gertrude Stein:

  I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

• Gertrude Stein:

  Let me listen to me and not to them.

• Gertrude Stein:

  We are always the same age inside.

• Gertrude Stein:

  I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

• Gertrude Stein:

  Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always

• Gertrude Stein:

  The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to t