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

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world...

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world...

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...

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...

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to...

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around...

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.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

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...

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to...

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to...

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...

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows...

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows...

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...

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...