Posted by John Nichols on October 05, 2005 at 14:32:21 from 70.191.148.241 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Pin Mill through other eyes posted by Lubber on October 04, 2005 at 22:45:51:
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography, 1937
US author in France (1874 - 1946)
I have not read the book Ordinary Families, I wonder how I find it.
But I did come across the quotation above as I was searching. Sounds almost ARish does it not.
I have no idea who Gertrude Stein is.