It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit aroun... - Gertrude Stein

This quote is attributed to Gertrude Stein.

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

Gertrude Stein Creativity

Novelist Poet American 1874–1946

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