Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.
Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.
Very likely education does not make very much difference.