Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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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...

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed...

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed...

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Remarks are not literature.

Remarks are not literature.

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...

It is very easy to love alone.

It is very easy to love alone.

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....

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

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 rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there...

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there...

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha...

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha...

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

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

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...

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.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut...

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut...

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...

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is...

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is...

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...