Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

"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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"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."
Gertrude Stein
"You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come."
Gertrude Stein
"It takes a heap of loafing to write a book."
Gertrude Stein
"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
Gertrude Stein
"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."
Gertrude Stein
"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."
Gertrude Stein
"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."
Gertrude Stein
"Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen."
Gertrude Stein
"Romance is everything."
Gertrude Stein
"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
"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money."
Gertrude Stein
"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."
Gertrude Stein
"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."
Gertrude Stein
"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger."
Gertrude Stein
"A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables."
Gertrude Stein
"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage."
Gertrude Stein
"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."
Gertrude Stein
"This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."
Gertrude Stein
"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation."
Gertrude Stein
"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?"
Gertrude Stein
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