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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

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
― 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

“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”
― Gertrude Stein

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“The artist works by locating the world in himself”
― Gertrude Stein