The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is…

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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

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

History takes time. History makes memory.

History takes time. History makes memory.

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.

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.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is....

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is....

Money is always there but the pockets change

Money is always there but the pockets change

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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

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

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...

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up...

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up...

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence...

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence...

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...

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...

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and...

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and...

We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a...

We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a...