More quotes by Gertrude Stein

"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."
"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."
"One must dare to be happy."
"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."