There ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

Gertrude Stein · The source reads: “I just tell you, and though I don't sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.” · Brewsie and Willie (1946)

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

Gertrude Stein · The Geographical History of America (1936)

Everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will.

Gertrude Stein · The source reads: “I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will.” · The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), Picasso on his portrait of Stein

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

Gertrude Stein · The source reads: “What is the answer? [I was silent.] In that case, what is the question?” · Last words, in Alice B. Toklas, What Is Remembered (1963)

If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.

William Shakespeare · The source reads: “If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine are to be loved.” · King Henry IV, Part I, II, iv

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Thornton Wilder · The Matchmaker (1954), act I

Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.

Winston Churchill · To Minister of Agriculture, 14 June 1941 (The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948))

“There ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.”

“In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.”

“Everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will.”

“What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?”

“If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”

“Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.”

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