Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
Gertrude SteinTo write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
Gertrude SteinThe nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
Gertrude SteinThere are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
Gertrude Stein