"An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work."
-Gertrude Stein
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"Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so."
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"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."
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"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."
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"War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost."
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"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."
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"For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ."
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