Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to...

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to...

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are...

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are...

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

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

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

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....

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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...

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

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

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone...

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone...

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference...

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference...

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....

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

Remarks are not literature.

Remarks are not literature.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that...

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that...

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

There is no there there.

There is no there there.