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

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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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...

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

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

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

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 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....

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...

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about...

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about...

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...

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

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

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

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...

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just...

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just...

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...

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows...

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows...

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

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

There is no there there.

There is no there there.

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...