Creative Quotations from Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

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Gertrude Stein
1874-1946) born on Feb 3

US author. She organized a writer's salon in Paris for post- WW I American expatriates known as the "Lost Generation."
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.

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Published Sources for Quotations Above:
F:	Reflection on the Atomic Bomb," 1946; also in "Readings in World Politics," ed. R. A. Goldwin, 1959.
R:	Everybody's Autobiography," 1937.
A:	In "My Autobiography," ch. 20, by Charlie Chaplin, 1964.
N:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
K:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.

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