Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied … - Gertrude Stein

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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.

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Gertrude Stein (3 February 1874 – 27 July 1946) was an American expatriate writer, poet, feminist, and playwright, who lived most of her life in Europe. She is remembered for her "flow-of-thought" and sometimes "cyclical" or "circular" manner of expressing things.

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Alternative Names: Gertruda Stein • Gertruda Staĭn

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Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realizing everything and every one comes out of them in repeating. More and more then every one comes to be clear to some one.

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. - Gertrude Stein

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