When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
From Gertrude Stein
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
If you can do it then why do it?
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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