Let me listen to me and not to them.

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

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

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

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

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

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

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

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

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

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

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

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing...

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing...

There is no there there.

There is no there there.

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.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that...

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that...

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...

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 not what France gave you but what it did not take from you...

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you...