Gertrude Stein Quotes
Gertrude Stein Quotes
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
3362You 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.
3345 It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
2170 You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don't dance
So you might as well
dance.
1372 In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
3951 Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
4011 I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing
1394 A FEATHER.
A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
3695 I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.
1033 Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.
1755 it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.
1997 Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
3799 Nature and man are opposed in Spain.
1309 It is an extraordinary thing but it is true, wars are only a means of publicising the things already accomplished.
3889 It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,
2900 It is very easy to love alone.
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