Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.
Gertrude SteinIt is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude SteinI have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Gertrude SteinThere is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is.
Gertrude Stein