Gertrude Stein Quotes about Time

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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.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Gertrude Stein

Time, Women, Philosophical

Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

Gertrude Stein

Time, Communication, Indifference

Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

Gertrude Stein

Time, Believe, Literature

Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.109, Vintage

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.

Gertrude Stein

Time, War, Years

Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.7, Random House

Gertrude Stein Quotes about Time

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