The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
Gertrude SteinOne never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
Gertrude SteinDogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
Gertrude SteinI don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
Gertrude Stein