... 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 SteinSince it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
Gertrude SteinIf you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein