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

—  Gertrude Stein

Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2

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American art collector and experimental writer of novels, p… 1874–1946

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