Quote#Wisdom
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I…
Quote byGertrude Stein · 1874–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Making of Americans (1925).
English (original)
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
— Gertrude Stein
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