Great Throughts Treasury

"America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be."

"All this makes sentences so clear I know how I like them."

"America is my country and Paris is my hometown"

"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 and they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are and that certainly has something to do with their having tucked their capital, their capitals away."

"An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work."

"And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself."

"Anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything."

"And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made."

"And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what"

"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it."

"Any one doing something and standing is one doing something and standing. Any one doing something and standing is one who is standing and doing something. Someone was doing something and was standing. That one was doing something standing."

"Art isn't everything. It's just about everything."

"Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful."

"Artists do not experiment. Experiment is what scientists do; they initiate an operation of unknown factors to be instructed by its results. An artist puts down what he knows and at every moment it is what he knows at that moment."

"Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening."

"As always art is the pulse of a nation."

"As a cousin of mine once said about money, money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money."

"As there was never any question there was never any answer."

"Bailing the center of a spot and not having an embankment is not the only way to flirt. So soon, so left without a spoon, so august and so strange and taller than every other, it is not astonishing that someone is older."

"Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet"

"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?'"

"But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people. They talk about cutting off the heads of the grosses têtes but now we know that there will be other grosses têtes and the will be all the same."

"Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care."

"But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style."

"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."

"But as they all say if we sell our home what will we have for it, money, and what is the use of that money, money goes and after it is gone then where are we, beside we have all we want, what can we do with money except lose it, money to spend is not very welcome, if you have it and you try to spend it, well spending money is an anxiety, saving money is a comfort and a pleasure, economy is not a duty it is a comfort, avarice is an excitement, but spending money is nothing, money spent is money non-existent, money saved is money realized."

"Callous is something that hardening leaves behind what will be soft if there is a genuine interest in there being present as many girls as men. Does this change. It shows that dirt is clean when there is a volume."

"Children do not take war seriously as war. War is soldiers and soldiers have not to be war but they have to be soldiers. Which is a nice thing."

"Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one."

"Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood."

"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation."

"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening."

"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."

"Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know."

"Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them."

"Doing something is interesting to some, if not any one is remembering that that thing has just been done. Doing something is interesting to some if not any one is remembering that any one was one beginning doing some such thing. Doing something is interesting to some when those are remembering that everyone has been doing that thing in having been shown that thing. Doing something is interesting to some when they are certain that all having been doing that thing have been completely dead and have not been forgotten. Doing something is interesting to some when they are certain that very many being dead were ones completely doing that thing. Doing things are interesting to some when some one is beginning to be finishing having done that thing. Doing something is interesting to some when they are remembering that everyone could be doing that thing. Doing something is interesting to some when they are certain that everyone should do that thing."

"Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family."

"Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody."

"Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat."

"Every day is any day."

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story."

"Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages."

"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

"Evolution was all over my childhood, walks abroad with an evolutionist and the world was full of evolution, biological and botanical evolution."

"Everyone is as their land is, as the climate is, as the mountains and the rivers or their oceans are as the wind and rain and snow and ice and heat and moisture is, they just are and that makes them have their way to eat their way to drink their way to act their way to think and their way to be subtle, and even if the lines of demarcation are only made with a ruler after all what is inside those right angles is different from those on the outside of those right angles, any American knows that."

"Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear. Now this is a simple thing that anybody who has ever argued or quarreled knows perfectly well is a simple thing, only when they read it they do not understand it because they do not see that understanding and believing are not the same thing."

"F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation."

"Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my"

"Family living can go on existing. Very many are remembering this thing are remembering that family living can go on existing. Very many are quite certain that family living can go on existing. Very many are remembering that they are quite certain that family living can go on existing."