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Quote by Gertrude Stein

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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

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Money is always there but the pockets change

Money is always there but the pockets change

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...

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

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

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage...

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage...

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be...

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be...

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Remarks are not literature.

Remarks are not literature.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women...

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women...

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

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

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

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.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

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...

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

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...

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream,...

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream,...

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...