A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.
Gertrude SteinEverybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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 SteinEzra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?
Gertrude Stein