"History takes time. History makes memory."

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Gertrude Stein

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“If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer."”
“All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.”
“Seedsmen reckon that their stock in trade is not seeds at all ... it's optimism.”
“The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.”
“The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.”
“It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.”
“The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well.”
“Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.”

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