Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can…

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It is very easy to love alone.

It is very easy to love alone.

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

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

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

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...

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....

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage...

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage...

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...

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.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence...

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence...

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.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

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

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

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...

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is...

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is...

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a...

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a...