Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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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...

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

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.

There is no there there.

There is no there there.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with...

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with...

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets...

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets...

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four...

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four...

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

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...

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....

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

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

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...

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that...

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that...

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...

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...