More quotes by Gertrude Stein

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
"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."
"One must dare to be happy."
"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."