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

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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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

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

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...

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...

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

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...

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...

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...

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....

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

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

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

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...

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

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...

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

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

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

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

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though...

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though...

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

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...

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

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