Gertrude Stein — a remark

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“I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, of course, are more important.”

Her belief in the imaginative audience beyond familiar circles · Essay, Lectures in America

About Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

3 February 1874–27 July 1946

Gertrude Stein was born on 3 February 1874 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, then a separate city and now part of Pittsburgh, and died on 27 July 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. Few modern writers have made language itself so central to the drama of literature. Stein was a novelist, poet, playwright, critic…

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