An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Gertrude Stein
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About Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Gertrude SteinMen cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Romance is everything.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people…
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
It is very easy to love alone.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.