It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Gertrude SteinIn the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
Gertrude Stein... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.
Gertrude Stein