The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as…

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an...

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an...

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

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.

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...

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an...

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an...

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.

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 no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

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

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is...

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is...

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.

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...

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

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

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

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.

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...

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...

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater...

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater...

The first duty of love is to listen.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who...

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who...