A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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History takes time. History makes memory.

History takes time. History makes memory.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be...

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be...

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by...

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by...

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie...

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie...

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you...

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you...

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch...

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch...

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women...

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women...

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to...

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to...

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

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

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...

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

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

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

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an...

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an...

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

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

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

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

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...

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When...

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When...

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.