Gertrude Stein Quotes on Action
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ~ Ch.1
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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something. ~ Ch.3
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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime. ~ Ch. 4