It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
From Gertrude Stein
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
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?'
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.
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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