There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget...

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget...

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is....

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is....

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all....

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all....

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream,...

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream,...

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed...

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed...

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the...

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the...

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing...

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing...

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is...

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is...

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does...

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does...

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.