Best Quotes by Gertrude Stein (Top 10)

  1. We are always the same age inside.
  2. It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
  3. Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
  4. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
  5. You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
  6. 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.
  7. There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
  8. Let me listen to me and not to them.
  9. I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
  10. America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

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