What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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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...

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

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

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...

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are...

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are...

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...

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

There is no there there.

There is no there there.

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...

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...

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 always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always...

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always...

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

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

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

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.

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing...

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing...

Romance is everything.

Romance is everything.

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

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

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.