“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
More from Gertrude Stein
“I certainly do care for you...less than you are always thinking and much more than you are…”
“Dear you, f*ck you.”
“One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle.…”
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing,…”